Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] so how does it find the plugins?

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From: "Patnaik, Anjela" <APatnaik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:03:28 -0400
Okay, folks, so how I do make Ethereal find
the plugins? I have rebuilt from the nightly
tar ball (2002-08-01) on solaris 2.7 after many
headaches.

Thanks a bunch!


-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:57 PM
To: Joerg Mayer
Cc: Patnaik, Anjela; 'Frank Singleton'; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RE: trying to build with giop plugin using
Solaris 2.7 and ethere al 0.9.6


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:44:20PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> I'm not sure that ethereal searches for plugins inside
> the build tree.

It doesn't, on UNIX - it doesn't know where the build tree is.

Even on Windows, where it does know where *it* (the Ethereal/Tethereal
binary) is, it only looks in a "plugins/{version}" subdirectory - it
doesn't know that it needs to look in the "mgcp" directory for the MGCP
plugin, for example.

This is a nuisance when running Ethereal from the build tree.