Re: Building Wireshark 1.8 with varargs

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On May 16, 2018, at 1:46 AM, Ridwan Shariffdeen <rshariffdeen () gmail com> wrote:

> I want to build Wireshark 1.8.1 from the source-code, but I get an error on gcc stating "#error "Please use 
> <stdarg.h> instead of <varargs.h>"
> Is there some way to maneuver through this?

Yes.

First, make sure your system has a stdarg.h header.  (stdarg.h first appeared in C89, so only a system with a *VERY* 
out-of-date C compilation environment wouldn't have one.)

Then:

        if you configured by running the configure script:

                do "make distclean";

                re-run the configure script, and capture its output into a file, e.g. "./configure 2>&1 | tee 
config.out" for a Bourne-compatible shell;

                check the configure output file to make sure the configure script found stdarg.h;

                if not, look in the config.log file to see *why* it didn't find stdarg.h, and fix that problem;

        if you configured by using CMake:

                remove the build directory in which you ran CMake;

                re-run CMake, and capture its output into a file

                check the configure output file to make sure CMake found stdarg.h;

                if not, look in what error file CMake also generated to see *why* it didn't find stdarg.h, and fix that 
problem.
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