Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal configuration misfeature (Solaris)

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From: Allen Mcintosh <mcintosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:12:07 -0400
When run on Solaris, the configuration script in the ethereal root directory
is very careful to set up LDFLAGS to include -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib.
Unfortunately, the configuration script in the epan directory (and one
other; I never bothered to track it down) does not.  If GLIB is in
/usr/local/lib, and is not in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, this results in a
configuration script that seems confused:  It says first that it is
happy with GLIB, and then many lines later that it can't find it (twice).

I fixed this by exporting LDFLAGS from the root configure script.
(I don't believe in installing for general use software that relies on
LD_LIBRARY_PATH being set.)