[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:08:29PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Andrew Tridgell was complaining today that he cannot get Ethereal to build 
> > on Debian or RedHat 7.3, so he has basically given up trying to use it.
> 
> RH 7.3?  No.

I run RH 7.2 and that seems OK. Andrew complained about 7.3 though.
 
> Debian?  I mainly run FreeBSD at home, but I also have Debian 3.0 (and
> Solaris 7 and NT 4.0) installed on my main machine, so I could try a
> build there.

I am told Debian SID with updates from last week.

> > There seems to be problems with autogen.sh creating INSTALL and then 
> > failing later because it already exists.
> 
> That might be a result of whatever version of automake/autoconf happens
> to be installed - it might be trying to supply a default INSTALL file,
> or something such as that, which is a bit silly given that we have our
> own INSTALL file.
> 

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