Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Cannot compile wireshark with man pages

From: chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:07:28 -0500
If that doesn't work, here are examples to load asciidoctor:

dnf install -y ruby
gem install asciidoctor

"DNF
On RPM-based Linux distributions, such as Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL, use the DNF package manager to install Asciidoctor.
..."

There is also one in EPEL (not sure if it pulls in pre-reqs):



On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 2:01 PM The Tibetan Traveller <garnet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

All the preacher men, the politicians

All the critics and the things they write.

-- Rainmakers

 

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