Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 45191: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/dissector

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:52:45 -0700
On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had been assuming that we needed to continue to define HAVE_CONFIG_H
> for backwards compatibility (e.g., for custom dissectors).

I'm not entirely sure what the point of HAVE_CONFIG_H is.  Is it to allow code to be "portable" between an autoconfig environment that uses config.h and other build tool environments (including autoconfig-based environments) that use -D's in the compile commands?  The autoconf documentation doesn't really give an indication of the purpose of HAVE_CONFIG_H or an indication of what the "best practice" is.