Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Problem building static version of Ethereal-0.8.12
>
> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:52:27 -0500
> From: Don Langbein <langbein@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Problem building static version of Ethereal-0.8.12
>
> I 'cd' to my ethereal source directory, then do 'make clean,' then
> './configure --prefix=$HOME,' which ran to completion with no errors,
> then 'make ethereral_static.' (For now I have the libpcap, libgtk+ and
> libg libraries in my personal directory, which is why I type
> '--prefix=$HOME' to configure.) Compile happens with no apparent
> problem, but at link time I get lots of undefined references to
> '_IO_stderr' and a few also to '_IO_stdin" and _IO_stdout.' The sources
> of these messages are mostly C library 'fprintf' calls referencing
> 'stderr,' or 'stdout.'. Using the 'nm' program I learn that These are
> defined in /usr/libc.a (in module stdfiles.o). (Could they also be
> defined in some other library?) Why libc (or maybe another library with
> proper definitions) is not getting scanned I do not know. I am trying
> to uderstand how the Makefile works, but I'm finding it slow going. (A
> few attempts to hip-shoot Makefile changes without really understanding
> what is going on have failed.)
>
> More: the dynamic version of ethereal-0.8.12 compiles and runs just
> fine. My build process is as above except that I do just 'make' (or
> sometimes 'make ethereal') instead of 'make ethereal_static.)
>
> In the interest of full disclosure I will mention that I have added
> some dissectors for some special packet types used internally in a
> product here. These dissectors seem to work fine in the dynamic
> version. The problem with ethereal_static seems totally unrelated to
> the new dissectors.
>
> Our environment here is Red Hat Linux release 5.2, kernal 2.0.36.
>
> A related question: in the ethereal Makefile I see the definition,
>
> ethereal_LDADD = \
> $(ethereal_optional_objects) \
> $(ethereal_additional-libs) \
> \
> "-dlopen" self \
> "-dlopen" plugins /gryphon/gryphon.la -lpcap
> -L/users/langbein/lib -L/users/Xll . . .(some other stuff)
>
> What exactly is '"-dlopen" self?' For starters, which program reads it
> and processes it? I can't seem to find that syntax as either a loader
> command line option or a Make command. I'm obviously off in the weeds!
>
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Don Langbein
Forget it. Not an ethereal problem. Sorry to clutter up the mailing list.
Problem was due to incomplete instance of glib in /usr/local/lib.
Don Langbein
