Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Help me get started on OS/2

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:10:44 -0600
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:53:49 "Roger F. Borrello, Jr." wrote:
> I'm trying to get Ethereal compiling with gcc under OS/2.  When I run ./configure, I get stopped here:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> checking whether to use SSL library if available... yes
> not required
> checking whether to use SNMP library if available... no
> checking for sa_len in struct sockaddr... no
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling
> 
> Is there any help someone can provide?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

This appears to be a bug in the "autoconf" package. "configure",
generated by "autoconf", seems to think that you're cross-compiling.
I imagine that you're not doing so.. you're compiling for OS/2 on OS/2, right?

--gilbert