Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.9.2 build problem o HP-UX 11.00

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:02:21 +1100
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:50:05PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:

> > Ethereal 0.9.2 failed to build o HP-UX 11.00
> 
> Well, it wouldn't build for me, either, using HP's make; it kept getting
> 
> 	Make: Macro expansion too big.  Stop.
> 
> errors.
> 
> I don't know whether this is a result of 0.9.2 having too many
> dissectors, and hence too many items in some macros, or not.

A lot of vendor makes have limits on the number of characters in a
variable.  If you want to remain compatible with these things then
you have to split things like the list of object files across multiple 
lines and other horrible hacks.  )-:


Tim.