On May 16, 2018, at 1:46 AM, Ridwan Shariffdeen <rshariffdeen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to build Wireshark 1.8.1 from the source-code, but I get an error on gcc stating "#error "Please use <stdarg.h> instead of <varargs.h>"
> Is there some way to maneuver through this?
Yes.
First, make sure your system has a stdarg.h header. (stdarg.h first appeared in C89, so only a system with a *VERY* out-of-date C compilation environment wouldn't have one.)
Then:
if you configured by running the configure script:
do "make distclean";
re-run the configure script, and capture its output into a file, e.g. "./configure 2>&1 | tee config.out" for a Bourne-compatible shell;
check the configure output file to make sure the configure script found stdarg.h;
if not, look in the config.log file to see *why* it didn't find stdarg.h, and fix that problem;
if you configured by using CMake:
remove the build directory in which you ran CMake;
re-run CMake, and capture its output into a file
check the configure output file to make sure CMake found stdarg.h;
if not, look in what error file CMake also generated to see *why* it didn't find stdarg.h, and fix that problem.