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> I have no problem install ethereal-0.8.18 on my machine, until I do
> "touch aclocal.m4"
> Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
No, I can't tell you for certain.
However, I would suggest downloading Ethereal 0.8.19 instead, as it uses
an older version of libtool that might not have the problem you're
seeing. It also fixes a number of bugs that would cause crashes, and
various other annoying bugs, so I would very very very very very very
very very strongly suggest you use 0.8.19 instead.
Note also that there are binary packages of Ethereal 0.8.19 available
from the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre; see
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gtk/ethereal-0.8.19/
for a site in the UK,
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/ethereal-0.8.19/
for a site in the western US,
http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Gtk/ethereal-0.8.19/
for a site in western Canada, and various other mirror sites that can be
found from the home page of the Porting and Archive Centre main UK site
and mirror sites.