On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:06:05PM -0400, Thomas M. Payerle wrote:
> I recently downloaded source code for ethereal 0.9.4 from
> http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ (the tar.gz format), and during my
> compilation attempt, I got errors from make about not knowing how to generate
> files like tools/lemon/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
>
> This was with the configure script included in the distribution.
>
> The problem seems to be fixed by adding the lines
> AC_EXEEXT
> AC_OBJEXT
> to configure.in and running autoconf.
>
> I do not know if this has been reported previously, but as was a problem in
> the source distribution I downloaded within the past couple days am assuming
> not.
>
> Though I do not think the following is really relevant, for completeness:
> platform is i686 running Linux 2.4.2-2 (RedHat 7.1)
> GTK 1.2.9
> Autoconf version 2.13
That's odd, because I've been able to successfully run autoconf 2.13
with the Ethereal configure.in on:
Solaris 2.{5.1,6,7,8} (Solaris 7 on x86, others on SPARC)
FreeBSD 3.4 (on x86)
assorted versions of Linux (on x86)
without that problem.
So there's something more complicated happening here.
