Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] Rev 12522: /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-MAP_DialoguePDU.c p

[LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

What if the files are put in a directory called PROTOCOL in the
dissectors directory with a makefile that copies/links the
packet-XXX.[ch]  in the dissetors dir?

Luis

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:37:38 +1100, ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:11:06 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> > ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> >
> > > it would be nice if there was a makefile in asn1 which would loop over
> > > all subdirectories where asn1 based dissectors are held (asn1/)
> > > and then from inside each directory run a new makefile to
> > > run the commandline to compile the thing into packet-protocol.[ch] and
> > > automatically copy them across to epan/dissector.
> >
> > Or if we just put the packet-XXX-template.[ch] files, *.asn files, and
> > *.cnf files into the epan/dissector directory, and put in dependencies
> > and rules to specify what files and commands are used to generate
> > packet-XXX.c, so that a regular make could rebuild them.
> >
> 
> Thinking things over, I am not sure that is a good approach.
> It would make it difficult to get an overview which files belong to
> which dissector.
> For most stuff down in epan/dissectors this is easy :
> to find all files related to IP we just look at packet-ip.c and packet-ip.h
> 
> These autogenerated files will consist of at least 4 and possibly 5
> different files :
> PROTOCOL_DEFINITION.asn
> packet-PROTOCOL-template.[ch]
> protocol.cnf
> protocol-exp.cnf
> 
> I think it would be cleaner to keep them in their own directory
> protocol by protocol.
> (though if that is opposed i am willing to move them to
> epan/dissectors one by one)
> Since there are so many of them now it is starting to become painful
> to manually rebuild all of them everytime a change in asn2eth needs
> them all to be regenerated.
> 
> 
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