Loris Degioanni wrote:
Some genius had the idea of adding a new file (print-slow.c) to the
repository few hours before the x.9.2 release, without at least trying
to recompile on all the platforms. Result: tcpdump 3.9.2 doesn't compile
under Windows (even if it used to compile the night before the release).
There needs to be a developer's document of some sort that says "if you
add a source file to tcpdump, you need to add it to:
Makefile.in;
FILES;
INSTALL (well, that's not a *requirement*, but it's a good idea);
win32/prj/GNUmakefile;
win32/prj/WinDump.dsp;
and give examples of what's added to all those files.
Ethereal avoids problems such as these by not doing Win32 projects -
builds are done with command-line "nmake" - and having both the nmake
files and the Makefile.am files include Makefile.common files, so that
there's only *one* list of files.
It also catches at least some other problems by using Buildbot:
http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/
so at least some build problems get caught (if tcpdump were to do the
same, the builds should be done from tarballs generated by "make tar",
so that it catches files not added to FILES).
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