Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] win32 setup/build problem

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Neil Piercy wrote:
> I've had a build failure under Windows since the move to glib 2.12.6, 
> which I traced to a setup problem: the unzip of the packages in 
> tools/win32-setup.sh uses "unzip -nq" - the -n prevents it updating 
> existing files at all, ending up with a mix of original package and 
> new package for those packages which reuse a non-versioned directory 
> for the unpacked files.
>
> Proposed fix:
> a) change the makefile so all unversioned package directories are 
> deleted during setup (looks like somebody else noticed similar as this 
> is already done for gtk2 for 2.12, but it should be wider) - it is 
> slower but safer to maybe always delete the destination dir and create 
> it afresh ?
>
> b) change win32-setup.sh to use -uo in place of -n - at least then you 
> get all the new package, possibly with remnants of the old package if 
> it wasnt deleted first and the files are no longer in the new package.
>
> Patches attached.
Hi Neil!

I simply added a dependency from the setup to the clean_setup target, so 
the dirs mentioned there are removed which should do the job.

Regards, ULFL