[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:49:21PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> Hmm - I was completely unaware ;P. I should read before I install
> next time ! Probably a bit ignorant on my side, I took it for a
> graphics library (GraphicsLIBrary -> GLIB), also since it is
> often required next to GTK+.

It's a library of utility routines that are used by GTK+; in GTK+ 1.0,
it was bundled as part of GTK+ (it was a separate library, but it came
as part of the GTK+ 1.0[.x] packages), but, with GTK+ 1.2, they
realized, I guess, that it was useful even without GTK+, and made it a
separate package.

> Anyway - this means I will probably install glib afterall. But what
> about the `make tethereal_static` on another box (with glib et al)
> that didn't work?

For some unknown reason - I had nothing whatsoever to do with the
Makefile stuff for building static binaries - those build rules depend
on having built non-static binaries beforehand, I think.  I'll leave it
up to the people who added that mechanism, and who use it, to discuss
this further.