Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Merging configure.in and epan/configure.in ?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 02:43:29 +0200
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:15:03PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> The original change to create "epan/configure.in" was checked in with 
> the comment:
> 
> 	Give libethereal its own configuration file, and have that 
> configuration
> 	file, rather than the top-level Ethereal configuration file, check 
> 	for
> 	"inet_aton()", "inet_pton()", and "inet_ntop()".  Then make its
> 	Makefile.am include the appropriate object files if necessary.
> 	Otherwise, they don't get built and put into libethereal, and 
> 	therefore
> 	attempts to link with anything in libethereal that uses them fail on
> 	platforms that lack ethem, causing the build to fail.

I'll be on holiday for a week - but if that's the main reason I'll try to
find a way to get rid of epan/configure.in while keeping that problem in
mind :-)

 Ciao
   Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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