Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Building on OS X

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:51:44 -0700

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 8:55 AM, Kevin wrote:

Sorry Guy, I figured there might be an off the cuff answer out there.

Considering it builds just fine for me, it would've been difficult for me to give an off-the-cuff answer.

The attached text file is the output of configure and make.

A significant difference between your configure output in mine is:

Mine:

	checking whether GLib supports loadable modules... no

Yours:

	checking whether GLib supports loadable modules... yes

Where did you get GLib from? Was it from Fink? (They might've added Mac OS X run-time linking support to -lgmodule.)

This caused it to try to build plugins, but it was doing that in a somewhat odd fashion, given that the plugins aren't shared libraries, they're run-time-loaded modules (which, on Mac OS X, aren't the same as shared libraries, unlike the way they are on most other UNIXes and on Windows).

A workaround would be to re-run configure with "--without-plugins"; I'll investigate further to see if I can figure out why (g)libtool(?) is behaving oddly here.