["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliveras, Michael said:
> I believe that on a cvs (svn) build you have to run ./autogen.sh first.

Correct.  The configure script, and Makefile.in files, were *NOT* checked
into CVS and are *NOT* checked into Subversion; only the files to generate
them are, and you have to run autogen.sh to generate them.

> This isn't neccessary when compiling an "official" build.

Correct.  The process of generating the source tarballs generates those
files and puts them into the tarball.

Also:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Evans [mailto:bob.evans@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:44 PM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] 10.5 build problem on linux
>
>
> I have no problem with ./configure,  make, make install on a downloaded,
> untarred 10.5.
> But when I place the code under CVS and try to build within my cvs
> working directory, I get the errors below.

...if by "place the code under CVS" he meant that he'd checked out the
anonymous CVS source tree and built from that, then not only does he need
to run autogen.sh first...

...he probably also wants to switch to Subversion, because 0.10.5 was the
last release that came from CVS.  0.10.6 came from Subversion, so
development with current Ethereal has to be done from a Subversion tree
rather than a CVS tree.