Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Does the bxxp stuff compile and run under Tru64

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:45:19 +0900
At 10:35 PM 9/18/00 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:48:11AM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> I would like to find out from people who have Tru64 UNIX and/or Solaris
>> whether or not the latest Ethereal (0.8.12) has any problems with the BXXP
>> dissector I submitted.
>> 
>> Does it compile ok?
>
>Yes, at least on Solaris 7/x86; I think I compiled it post-BXXP checkins
>at work, under Solaris 2.6/SPARC as well.

Well, what I am concerned about are little-endian issues vs big-endian
issues, but I realized today that the BXXP protocol is all character-based,
so these issues should not be a problem.

However, it is nice to know that it compiles. Will be good to see if it
runs OK as well.

>> If so, does anyone have statically linked versions that I can check?
>
>Do you require SPARC, or will x86 do?  (And which Solaris version(s) do
>you have?)
>
>> Also, does anyone know where I can find pre-built versions of GTK+ and GLIB
>> for Tru64 UNIX?
>
>".a", or ".so", or both?
>
>Unless you have a pre-built Ethereal - in which case, if they're
>statically linked with GTK+ and GLib, the libraries wouldn't be
>necessary - the pre-built libraries won't help, as you'd also need the
>header files, though.
>

Regards
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