[Nico Schottelius <nicos-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris [Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:54:43PM -0800]:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:20:32PM +0000, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Guy Harris [Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:50:27AM -0800]:
> > > Are you also planning on releasing either
> > > 
> > > 	1) changes to autoconf
> > 
> > This would be most senseful, but because FSH is not yet released, it would 
> > be much to early for that.
> 
> And, besides, it won't help with stuff that's already been packaged with
> earlier versions of autoconf.

no, that's true. but sometime all pacakages will be up-to-date. 
 
> > > 	3) a suggested "config.site" file, plus directions to set
> > > 	   "CONFIG_SITE"
> > 
> > I have not heard about config.site files, could you give me an url or something
> > for more information ?
> 
> 	http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_12.html#SEC128
> 
> I don't know whether that would let you override the default include or
> lib directories, nor do I know whether it'd let you forcibly add the
> necessary "-I" and "-L" flags to every autoconf package.

will have a look at it later, thank you for the url.
 
> It might be possible to modify the configuration files GCC reads (the
> "specs" files) to make them automatically search in directories other
> than the default ones.  You would probably want to do that as well, as
> people might not be happy if they can't just do

that's true. I have to talk to gcc developers, as soon as I release the FSH.

> > Btw, back to etherreal: 
> > After I got it running, it seems to break down:
> > I start logging for some seconds and then stop it. Etherreal tries to load
> > the file, but doesn't finish this process! The table with the data is updated
> > really seldom (after window over/back it is redrawn very late)...
> > 
> > Is that normal ?
> 
> Yes, if
> 
> 	1) you haven't disabled IP-address-to-name resolution
> 
> and
> 
> 	2) there are DNS delays trying to resolve IP addresses from the
> 	   capture (either due to DNS servers being down, or some other
> 	   problem reaching them, or some form of misconfiguration).

okay, I forgot about dns...but still it should be able to resolve the names...
will try it now. yes, it's slow, but it works...

Nico

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