Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] How to build from CVS (have no configure)?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:23:19 -0700 (PDT)
> I checked out ethereal from CVS, but I got no configure script.

"configure" isn't checked into CVS, as it's generated from
"configure.in".

> I tried to build one from configure.in but autoconf (2.13) gives
> errors and the resulting configure is not running:

You need automake, not just autoconf.

If you check Ethereal out from CVS, the first thing to do is to run

	./autogen.sh

to run all the appropriate programs to generate configure files and the
like.