Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] More updates to Oscar dissector

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From: "Devin Heitmueller" <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:20:45 -0500
Joerg,

Thanks for your help.  

The OS X issue relates to a security update Apple did which replaced the version of the libpcap headers.  Guy discussed it on the list last week, but I just haven't had a chance to get it working.

Regarding the automake problem with Mandrake, I did some digging and found out that apparently Mandrake does include an alternate automake-1.7.  To install it, the user just needs to do a "urpmi automake1.7".

As you indicated the autogen.sh needs to be modified to have AUTOMAKE=automake-1.7.  Also though, you need to do "ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.7.

Once I did this, it looks like everybody starts working.

Thanks,

Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Joerg Mayer [mailto:jmayer@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Sun 3/21/2004 3:51 AM
To:	Ethereal development
Cc:	
Subject:	Re: [Ethereal-dev] More updates to Oscar dissector

Devin,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:20:49PM -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> I would do this myself, but since I can't seem to get Ethereal to compile
> under OS X or Mandrake Linux (my two development platforms), I'm kind of
> stuck not being able to do any Ethereal development.

As I'm the one who did the patches that broke your development environment
I'd like to help you to get it working again.
As I'm not familiar with Mac OS the only thing I can do is to point you to
the new RAEDME.macos for help. In case you try that and post problem reports
along the way we may fix the problems with the help of those who have it
working again and update the REAMDE.macos accordingly.
On Linux, I hope I'll be able to help you. You wrote:

> I am running the standard automake, autoconf, and libtool that ship with
> Mandrake 9.1.  Here are the versions:
> 
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
> Autoconf version 2.13
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.3 (1.922.2.110 2002/10/23 01:39:54)

>From this list (and the autoconf detection script) it looks like the
only tool that is too old is automake. So what you could do is to grab
a current version of automake (either 1.7.9 or 1.8.x), run configure
(don't run autoconf, your autoconf is too old) and install the stuff
into /usr/local. After that remove /usr/local/bin/automake to avoid
acidentally running the wrong automake version. After that change
autogen.sh from "AUTOMAKE=automake" to "AUTOMAKE=automake-1.7". This
should get you going again (I don't know enough about mandrake to
know whether they support alternative automake versions out of the
box, thus the method with autogen.sh).

 Ciao
                  Jörg

-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

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