Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] build & installing ethereal(urgent)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:37:10 -0700
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:44:49AM -0700, farahmand zahra wrote:
> I have redhat 7.2 and ethereal-0.9.3.tar.gz,I have problem in step
> 4:make,configuration is done successfully and no error is occured but
> when I want to build the source and do 'make' this error is occured:
> 
> ln:creating hardlink 'gryphon.la' to ' ../gryphon.la' : operation not
> permitted. 
> 
> make[3]: *** [gryphon.la] Error 1
> 
> make[3]: leaving directory
> '/f/frmnd/Ethereal/source/ethereal-0.9.3/plugins/gryphon'

What type of file system is "/f/frmnd/Ethereal/source/ethereal-0.9.3"
on?

If it's an MS-DOS file system, hard links aren't permitted, and the
Ethereal build will fail, so you should put it on a UNIX-style file
system (e.g., ext2, ext3, or other native Linux file system) instead.