My tap doesn't have a GUI, just prints some things out right now for 
testing, so I put it in the TSHARK_TAP_SRC list and it seems to be ok. 
Thanks.

On 4/12/2010 10:09 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Shawn Mayer wrote:
>
>    
>> Wireshark's Makefile is well beyond anything I've ever edited,
>>      
> Wireshark's Makefile is well beyond anything most people have ever edited, as 
> it's generated by two levels of software; automake turns Makefile.am, and 
> whatever it includes, to Makefile.in, and the configure script turns 
> Makefile.in to Makefile.  Editing Makefile itself is not recommended.
>
>    
>> so how would I add a tap to it?
>>      
> If you don't have automake, you can't do the best thing, which is to edit the 
> appropriate Makefile.common; in that case:
>
>       If the tap has no GUI (such as a TShark-only tap), edit the top-level 
> Makefile.in and add it to the TSHARK_TAP_SRC list.
>
>       If the tap has a GUI (a Wireshark-only tap), edit gtk/Makefile.in and 
> add it to the WIRESHARK_TAP_SRC list.
>
> Then re-run the configure script (it *might* rerun the configure script for 
> you if you do a make, but I'm not sure).
>
> If you *do* have automake (and autoconf and libtool) installed:
>
>       If the tap has no GUI (such as a TShark-only tap), edit the top-level 
> Makefile.common and add it to the TSHARK_TAP_SRC list.
>
>       If the tap has a GUI (a Wireshark-only tap), edit gtk/Makefile.common 
> and add it to the WIRESHARK_TAP_SRC list.
>
> Then, if you haven't already run ./autogen.sh, do that, and then run the 
> configure script.  Otherwise, just running make should suffice.
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