Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Three small patches

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:23:06 -0600
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 05:53:10PM +0100, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Here are three small patches I would like to see applied.

Thanks. I have applied them to CVS.

> The first patch just adds a line in the manuf file for the
> company I work for (there is one already, but that one is for
> our token ring products).

One of the reasons I started working on Ethereal was to debug
communications to our token-ring Axis print servers; that's why
00:02:31 is in there. I have some year-old traces showing
a bug in the TCP/IP stack of the Axis 660 and 670 if you're
interested. The bug appears when sending large jobs
from NT, AIX, or Linux, if you're interested. The Axis help
desk never helped me too much. But I don't deal with print servers
any more.

> 
> The second patch adds the configure option --enable-setuid-install
> which installs ethereal and tethereal (and possibly ethereal_static)
> setuid root. An option that at least I find very useful, though
> definitely nothing that should be done by default ;)

I put a "DANGEROUS!!!' comment in configure help message.

> The third patch modifies autogen.sh to run libtoolize so that
> libtool works for people like me who still use version 1.3.3 of
> libtool. It should be combined with the removal of config.guess

Thanks. I also changed the comment in autogen.sh to say that
the minimum required version of libtool is 1.3.3. Do you happen
to know what the real minimum version is?

> and ltconfig from the repository (as these are created by
> libtoolize). Also, I would suggest removing libltdl/.cvsignore
> from the repository so that the libltdl directory is removed
> when one does a 'cvs up -Pd'.

Great. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

> 
> //Peter

--gilbert