Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master 3147087: Fix ranlib "has no symbo

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:28:49 -0800
On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Wireshark code review <code-review-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> URL: https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3147087de323c0294b51006f97b641fc408f1b06
> Submitter: Gerald Combs (gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Changed: branch: master
> Repository: wireshark
> 
> Commits:
> 
> 3147087 by Gerald Combs (gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> 
>    Fix ranlib "has no symbols" errors in the codecs directory.
> 
>    Don't build the G.722 or G.726 codecs for now. Each are wrapped in
>    "#ifdef HAVE_SPANDSP", which we don't define.

Should we be checking for that library:

	http://www.soft-switch.org

as per, for example:

	https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201412/msg00013.html

and

	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5619

or is spandsp not yet mature or cross-platform (where "platform" includes "CPU" - and "generation of the instruction set of that CPU") enough?

They also say:

	http://www.soft-switch.org/installing-spandsp.html

"A number of Linux and other software distributions include SpanDSP, but they usually supply older versions of the library, which lack a lot of the features of the current version."

Even if we don't want to use it by default if present, should we have --with-spandsp, defaulting to "no", so that people don't have to do quite as much work to use it if they choose to build a custom version of Wireshark?