[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

JaNy wrote:

> I'm trying to create my own ethereal dissector in plugin form. I studied 
> documentation and readme files, which are incomplete. README.plugins 
> only explains how to transform dissector into a plugin. It's somehow 
> difficult for me to figure out how to write supporting files like 
> Makefile, Makefile.am <http://Makefile.am>,... under linux.

You don't create Makefile.  automake creates Makefile.in from 
Makefile.am, and the configure script generated by autoconf creates 
Makefile from Makefile.in when the user runs the script.

> Does anybody has any directions/suggestions for me?

Look at the existing plugins and do the same sort of thing their 
Makefile.am files do.