Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Latest CVS make problems

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From: Mark Burton <markb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:02:54 +0100 (BST)
Thanks Joerg, that fixed it.

I thought there was a magic script to configure the auto stuff but I
couldn't remember its name. Perhaps it's worth adding a README.cvs or
similar that suggests its usage.

Thanks again,

Mark


From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Latest CVS make problems
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:39:08 +0200

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:28:10PM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
> > Sorry if this is a dumb question but can anyone tell me what to do to
> > get the latest CVS ethereal to build. When I type 'make' I get:
> > 
> > cd . && /bin/sh /home/markb/src/ethereal/EtherealCVS/ethereal/missing --run aclocal-1.6 `./aclocal-flags`
> > aclocal: configure.in: 229: macro `AM_PATH_GTK_2_0' not found in library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 253: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 267: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in library
> > WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
> 
> You very likely don't have glib2 and gtk2 installed. To compensate for that
> you need to run ./autogen.sh once. Actually, you have just found a bug, but
> manually running ./autogen.sh is a workaround until I find the time to
> fix it (quite likely during the weekend).
> 
>  Thanks for the report
> 
>            Ciao
>                       Jörg
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> what proactive means.