Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Compiling 10.3 into a single binary

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:34:54 +1000
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Anthony P. Machon wrote:
| Prior to 10.3 ( 10.2 included )
| ./configure; make
|
| resulted in a 23 Mb or so binary which could be moved from system to
system
| and decode packets. I just downloaded and did the same for 10.3 and
| "ethereal" is a 5000 byte shell script with a huge path.  Is there a
compile
| /config option go get the previous behavior. Or a list of all the files
| which need to be installed such that I can create an rpm/tar ball for
| installing on a couple of dozen systems without a "make install" on each
|
| I tried "configure --without-plugins -enable-static" but got compile
errors.
| I dont really need static linking anyway.


make install DESTDIR=/tmp/ethereal-0.10.3
cd /tmp/ethereal-0.10.3
tar cvf ethereal-0.10.3.tar *

ethereal-0.10.3.tar should be extractable in / on the target systems.

That is almost the process I use on Slackware, using makepkg instead of
tar. You can do something similar on Solaris using the helper scripts
from sunfreeware.com to create pkgadd-able packages.

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