[Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks..  I think that that gives me enough info, that
I can stop walking this dead end..

It wasn't a *complete* waste, though. The redent script may
be useful for those people who want to look at configure
scripts (at least I found it useful).  I expect that it
would also useful to people working with other large
shell scripts (especially debugging machine-generated ones).


Olivier Biot wrote:
> From: Stephen Samuel
>
> | Quick query: Is glib required for building tethereal
> | and the other text-based commands?
>
> Definitely! GLib provides a powerful API to *lots* of convenient
> utility functions (they tend to start with "g_"; you won't probably
> find a single file *without* a GLib call :)
>
> | I realize that,
> | without X loaded, ethereal itself will never compile
> | and I'm not expecting it to (disabled it in the config).
>
> That's weird. Maybe it has to do with the PATH you have when working
> in an X environment. I tend to open an X terminal and compile Ethereal
> (or any other program) from that Terminal, and it is true, my PATH is
> extended when using X.

Should have been a bit more accurate... X isn't *installed* on this box.
No libs, no binaries, no useful path unless I'm using NFS.

The box was mostly meant as a firewall, but I also use it to play
with OpenBSD (yeah, I know.. having compilers on a firewall is a nono).
My other boxes are Linux, although I may be installing a test Solaris unit.

> Remember that the GUI application "ethereal" requires GLib (as do all
> other binary files in the Ethereal project) *plus* GTK+ which is a GUI
> library.

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