Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Controlling the location of plugins directory

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:55:58 +0800


Bob Doolittle wrote:
Hi,

Can wireshark handle env-variable control of the
location of the plugins directory (similar to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc)?

I haven't found it, and desperately need it.  I
work in an environment where I commonly use
several platforms, including Solaris sparc and x86
as well as various Linux distros.  So I need to build
architecture-dependent versions of a plugin, and
currently can't find a way to deploy this in an
easy fashion in the $HOME directory.

Take a look at bug 1476:

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1476

It looks like what you want may be (partially) implemented already.