Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal Install problem

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From: Phil N <pnewlon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:12:38 -0500
Guy, et al -

Funny, this is just where I was today myself.  :-)

I am having a problem with make when building Ethereal 0.8.4.1.  I have snipped the last few
messages, maybe you can help?

[RH 6.1, 2.2.12-20 kernel, ucd-dev 4.1.1.2, libcap-0.4.19]

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make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ethereal/ethereal-0.8.4/plugins'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/ethereal/ethereal-0.8.4'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -I. -I./wiretap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/pcap  -Wall -g
-O2 -I. -I./wiretap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
-I/usr/include/pcap -c packet-aarp.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -I. -I./wiretap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/pcap  -Wall -g
-O2 -I. -I./wiretap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
-I/usr/include/pcap -c packet-afs.c
/tmp/ccVgSVDl.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccVgSVDl.s:13253: Error: Ignoring junk '(%ebp)-%ecx' after expression
/tmp/ccVgSVDl.s:13253: Error: operands given don't match any known 386 instruction
make[2]: *** [packet-afs.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ethereal/ethereal-0.8.4'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ethereal/ethereal-0.8.4'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
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Guy Harris wrote:

> Therefore, you will have to build Ethereal from source, unless
> somebody's already done so on a system with UCD SNMP 4.1.1 - I don't
> know whether anybody has.
> 
> To build from source, you will have to install the
> "ucd-snmp-devel-4.1.1-2" RPM, and download the Ethereal source.