I put in a softlink for asciidoctor to asciidoc and the 'cmake' command found it. I am currently recompiling it to see if it installs the man pages.
On Thursday, July 07, 2022 02:55:09 PM The Tibetan Traveller wrote:
> It appears to be installed:
>
> [sngsacc@freya wireshark-3.6.6]$ rpm -qa | grep ascii
> sciidoc-8.6.10-0.5.20180627gitf7c2274.el8.noarch
> [sngsacc@freya wireshark-3.6.6]$ rpm -ql asciidoc | grep bin
> /usr/bin/a2x
> /usr/bin/a2x.py
> /usr/bin/asciidoc
> /usr/bin/asciidoc.py
> [sngsacc@freya wireshark-3.6.6]$ which asciidoc
> /usr/bin/asciidoc
>
> Should I put a link connecting asciidoctor to asciidoc?
>
>
> On Thursday, July 07, 2022 01:43:48 PM chuck c wrote:
>
> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html/#ChToolsDocumentationToolchai
> n
>
> > "The doc directory contains man pages written in Asciidoctor markup."
> >
> > -- The following OPTIONAL packages have not been found:
> > * Asciidoctor (required version >= 1.5)
> >
> > Is Asciidoctor installed? On the PATH?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:23 PM The Tibetan Traveller
>
> <garnet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > wrote:
> > > I am trying to compile wireshark 3.6.6 from source on a rhel8 server;
>
> but,
>
> > > can not seem to get the man pages installed. I downloaded the
>
> source
>
> > > tarball from wireshark.org. untarred it. Changed into the
>
> wireshark-3.6.6
>
> > > directory. Issued the following commands:
> > >
> > >
> > > cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
> > >
> > > make
> > >
> > > make DESTDIR=/tmp/rpmbuild install
> > >
> > >
> > > perl, python3, GNU 'make', pod2man, & flex are installed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I can see the binaries; but, I can't see any man pages. I searched the
> > > INSTALL & README files & couldn't see any type of switches for turning
>
> the
>
> > > man pages on or off. Searching the web wasn't any help since
>
> "compile
>
> > > wireshark man pages" just links me to the man pages on the web.
> > >
> > >
> > > The output of the cmake command:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -- The following OPTIONAL packages have been found:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * Git
> > >
> > > * GMODULE2
> > >
> > > * Gettext
> > >
> > > * LIBSSH (required version >= 0.6), Library for implementing SSH
>
> clients,
>
> > > <
> > > https://www.libssh.org/>
> > >
> > > extcap remote SSH interfaces (sshdump, ciscodump)
> > >
> > > * PCAP
> > >
> > > * MaxMindDB, C library for the MaxMind DB file format, <
> > > https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb>
> > >
> > > Support for GeoIP lookup
> > >
> > > * SMI, Library to access SMI management information, <
> > > https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/>
> > >
> > > Support MIB and PIB parsing and OID resolution
> > >
> > > * GNUTLS (required version >= 3.3.0)
> > >
> > > * KERBEROS
> > >
> > > * ZLIB
> > >
> > > * ZSTD (required version >= 1.0.0), A compressor/decompressor from
> > > Facebook providing better compression than Snappy at a cost of
>
> speed, <
>
> > > https://facebook.github.io/zstd/>
> > >
> > > Zstd decompression in Kafka dissector, read compressed capture
>
> files
>
> > > * NL, Libraries for using the Netlink protocol on Linux, <
> > > https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/>
> > >
> > > Support for managing wireless 802.11 interfaces
> > >
> > > * CAP, The Libcap package implements the user-space interfaces to
>
> the
>
> > > POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels, <
> > > https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/>
> > >
> > > Allow packet captures without running as root
> > >
> > > * SETCAP
> > >
> > > * XSLTPROC
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -- The following REQUIRED packages have been found:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * GLIB2 (required version >= 2.38.0)
> > >
> > > * GTHREAD2
> > >
> > > * GCRYPT (required version >= 1.5.0)
> > >
> > > * CARES (required version >= 1.5.0), Library for asynchronous DNS
> > > requests, <https://c-ares.org/>
> > >
> > > DNS name resolution for captures
> > >
> > > * LEX
> > >
> > > * Perl
> > >
> > > * Python3 (required version >= 3.4)
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With anybody who claims they're right.
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All the critics and the things they write.
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