> Hi Harris,
> it worked when installed both flex and bison. anyway i'm having problems
> with ethereal `make`. after configuring successfully the make reports the
> following errors.
>
> (cd doc ; \
> make ../ethereal.1 )
> ../ethereal -G | /ws/on81-tools/SUNWspro/SC5.0/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl
> ./ethereal.pod.template > ethereal.pod
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 43, next 2 tokens "chomp("
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 54, next 2 tokens "(("
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 55, next 2 tokens "= ["
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 57, next token "}"
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 93, next 2 tokens "@$field_abbrev"
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 93, next 2 tokens "})"
> syntax error in file ./dfilter2pod.pl at line 95, next 2 tokens "}["
> Execution of ./dfilter2pod.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> *** Error code 255
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ethereal.pod'
> Current working directory /ethereal_src/ethereal/doc
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ethereal.1'
> Current working directory /ethereal_src/ethereal
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /ethereal_src/ethereal
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am'
>
> for me it appears that problem with perl in solaris..do i have
> install other version of perl???if so what is it??
Well, the fact that somebody answers question X about something doesn't
*ipso facto* mean that they necessarily will be able to answer question
Y about it, so I'm CCing "ethereal-dev" on this.
I know that on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6 the version of Perl we have
installed seems to work fine:
tooting$ perl --version
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
...
I don't know what version of Perl you have, nor do I know what the
problem is with that particular script and the version of Perl you have,
but I'd suggest getting the latest version of Perl and installing it, to
see if that fixes the problem.