On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 08:30:08PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
A wireshark plugin must declare what major and minor version it
was built with as these are checked when wireshark loads plugins.
On the top of that, we use major + minor + micro to adapt to
changed API between releases. So far, we were getting these
version numbers from wireshark/config.h.

And while most distributions install wireshark/config.h file some
don't. On distros shipping it it's hack^Wsaved during built by
packaging system and installed later. But some distros are not
doing that. At least not for new enough wireshark because as of
wireshark's commit v2.9.0~1273 the ws_version.h is installed
which contains the version macros we need and is installed by
wireshark itself.

But of course, some distros which have new enough wireshark
packaged do not ship ws_version.h and stick to the hack. That is
why we can't simply bump the minimal version and switch to the
new header file. We need a configure check and adopt our code to
deal with both ways. At least for the time being.

Based on Andrea's original patch:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-September/msg00156.html

Closes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/74
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mklet...@redhat.com>

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