Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Why do I need Glib2 for tethereal

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:36:35 -0400
both tethereal and ethereal use functions from GLIB.   things like
hashtables, memory management and specific types declared in the glib
headers.

use --disable-gtk2   if you want to compile it for GLIB1



On 7/7/05, Glenn Newell <Glenn.Newell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a consistent tethereal version across all our
> platforms:
> 
> RH 7.2 x86
> RHEL 3.0 x86
> RHEL 3.0 AMD64
> Suse E9 EM64t
> Solaris 2.5 - 2.9 sparc
> HPUX 11
> etc.
> 
> for the platforms that don't have native GLIB2 and GTK+ (such as RH 7.2
> and Solaris), I'm configuring with:
> 
> --disable-ethereal --disable-gtktest --disable-glibtest
> 
> but I STILL get a config error for Glib2:
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
> for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly
> installed.
> configure: error: GLib2 distribution not found.
> 
> Do I really need that if I'm not building a GUI?
> 
> On Solaris I went ahead and installed Glib2 (but not GTK+) and can get
> past the configure problem, but then I have a link error:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> libiconv                            epan/.libs/libethereal.so
> libiconv_open                       epan/.libs/libethereal.so
> libiconv_close                      epan/.libs/libethereal.so
> register_all_plugin_tap_listeners   tethereal.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> .libs/tethereal
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> A search of the list suggested tacking "." out of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but
> that didn't help .
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Glenn
> 
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