Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Making a new packet dissector (help)

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:12:14 -0600 
From: Guillaume Le Malet [mailto:guillaume.le.malet@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:53 PM

> Hi.                                                                   
> Im trying to integrate a packet-*.c in Ethereal but it doesn't seem to
> work for the moment.                                                  
> I've modified the following files:                                    
> -entries                                                              
> -makefile.nmake                                                       
> -makefile.am                                                          
>                                                                       
> But when I type "./autogen.sh" : It gives me an error message (about  
> makefile.am):                                                         
> *Invalid unused variable name: 'DISSECTOR_SOURCES'                    
> *Invalid unused variable name: 'ETHEREAL_COMMON_SOURCES'.             
>                                                                       
> I don't think the problem is due to the packet-*.c .                  
> I rather think that I forgot to modify something.                     
>                                                                       

If you don't have any header files, just add the packet*-.c
file name to the DISSECTOR_SOURCES list.  Check section 1.9
in the doc/README.developer file.

Jeff