[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following patch is part of the current Debina Ethereal package.
Does it make sense to include it in mainline Ethereal as well?

 Ciao
  Joerg

--- ethereal-0.10.5.orig/idl2eth.sh
+++ ethereal-0.10.5/idl2eth.sh
@@ -48,34 +48,5 @@
     exit 1;
 fi

-#
-# Run ethereal backend, looking for ethereal_be.py and ethereal_gen.py
-# in pythons's "site-packages" directory. If cannot find that, then
-# try looking in current directory. If still cannot, then exit with
-# error.
-
-if [ -f $PYTHONPATH/site-packages/ethereal_be.py ] && [ -f $PYTHONPATH/site-packages/ethere
al_gen.py ]; then
-    omniidl  -p $PYTHONPATH/site-packages -b ethereal_be $1
-    exit $?
-fi
-
-# Try current directory.
-
-if [ -f ./ethereal_be.py ] && [ -f ./ethereal_gen.py ]; then
-    omniidl  -p ./ -b ethereal_be $1
-    exit $?
-fi
-
-# Could not find both ethereal_be.py AND ethereal_gen.py
-
-echo "idl2eth Error: Could not find both ethereal_be.py AND ethereal_gen.py."
-echo "Please ensure you have the PYTHONPATH variable set, or that ethereal_be.py "
-echo "and ethereal_gen.py exist in the current directory. "
-echo
-echo "On this system, PYTHONPATH is : $PYTHONPATH"
-echo
-
-exit 2
-
-
+omniidl -b ethereal_be $1


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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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