Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master e282c19: autotools: Fix multiple repetitions of -L bu

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23-02-2016 14:14, Anders Broman wrote:
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> *Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master e282c19:
> autotools: Fix multiple repetitions of -L build flags
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:48 AM, João Valverde
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> On 22-02-2016 14 <tel:22-02-2016%2014>:28, Jeff Morriss wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Wireshark code review
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>      e282c19 by João Valverde (joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>           autotools: Fix multiple repetitions of -L build flags
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>           Before:
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>             WS_LDFLAGS=' -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib
>      -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
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>           After:
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>             WS_LDFLAGS=' -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib'
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>           Bumps autoconf required version to 2.64.
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> FWIW this means Wireshark master (to become 2.2) will no longer work on
> RHEL/CentOS 6 (which has autoconf 2.63).  I don't seem to have an easy
> way to check SLES.
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> (Just for the record) Anders' config.log shows that his SLES 11.2 system
> is also running autoconf 2.63.
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> I noted that too, is it possible to easily update autoconf? (RPM?) Or
> would that drag in all kinds of dependencies? Long term I’d like to push
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> my users to SLES 12.1 anyway.

Autoconf dependencies are Perl and GNU m4. Easiest would be to do a 
'make dist' on a suitable system (SLES or not) and distribute the 
resulting tarball instead.

> Regards
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> Anders
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