Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please test: shared libs

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:46:56 -0000
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:42, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Feb 6, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 
> > the patch below turns libwiretap and libethereal into shared libs.
> > I'd like to see some testing on more than my system before I submit it.
> 
> Let me (or somebody) test it on, at minimum, Mac OS X *and* Solaris 
> first, so that we know that it's
> 
> 	1) not dependent on systems using ELF;
> 
> 	2) not dependent on GNU ld.
> 
> > Things I'd like to get feedback on too:
> > Should I make dfilter into a shared lib too?
> 
> Should the dfilter stuff be a separate library, or should it be 
> considered part of libethereal?

I'd keep dfilter as part of libethereal. It has no use outside of
libethereal.

--gilbert