On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 1:23 PM Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 2:03 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Wireshark is a complicated project to build. You can follow the tested way, as shown in the Developers Guide, which is essentially what our Continuous Integration (CI) systems use and most other developers, or you can forge your own path on less travelled routes strewn with rocks, rusty nails and broken glass that you mostly have to deal with on your own.
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> > Unless you have some inescapable need to do things in a different way, it's easier and more productive to follow the herd.
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> Building in a subdirectory with a name other than "build" isn't exactly a "[route] strewn with rocks, rusty nails and broken glass". *That* should Just Work (at least if the name is all ASCII printable characters and contains no spaces); if it doesn't, that's a sign that the build process isn't robust enough.
Indeed, I routinely build in directories like wireshark-build or
wireshark-<mumble>-build and I have never seen a problem. cmake is not
that silly.
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Richard Sharpe
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