Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] libethereal linking problem

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From: Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:33:08 +0200
Michael Cohen wrote:

  This means that libethereal itself contains symbols which it needs to
  import from the linked in executable!!! Not only do I need to link
  into libethereal, but my binary needs to link into all those libraries
  which libethereal needs itself.

  Those libraries are obviously set through configure time, so I am
unable to predict this list in a generic way.
Right. If we wanted to provide libethereal externally, we'd also need to expose the build configuration. I proposed an ethereal.pc for pkg-config about a year ago, but the (single) response indicated that we're not there yet: 

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200405/msg00257.html

Is this still the consensus?


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)