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Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library?
From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:29:30 -0500
Guy Harris wrote:
On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:I was just curious. I rarely install Wireshark on machines I do development on (I run it from the build directory), so when I installed it for a change that the little ~22k libwsutil.so.0 was installed :). I was thinking of it from more of a "do any non-Wireshark programs really need the wsutil shared library out there?" perspective compared to libwireshark that I know other programs utilize and libwiretap that is possibly used by other programs as well. Thanks.I think any non-Wireshark programs that link with either libwireshark or libwiretap also, in effect, link with libwsutil, as they have to, given that, as I remember, both libwireshark and libwiretap call routines in libwsutil. (They might not *explicitly* link with libwsutil, as I think most if not all UN*Xes support linking shared libraries with other shared libraries, and if our libwireshark and libwiretap are blinked with libwsutil, linking with libwireshark or libwiretap is sufficient to cause libwsutil to be linked in at startup time, but they still *depend* on libwsutil.)
I tried linking libwireshark and libwiretap against libwsutil (in rev 26218) so the executables wouldn't to, but it didn't work, at least on Ubuntu 8.04: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1677#c23 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Stephen Fisher (Dec 03)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Jeff Morriss (Dec 03)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Stephen Fisher (Dec 03)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Guy Harris (Dec 03)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Jeff Morriss (Dec 06)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Stephen Fisher (Dec 03)
- Re: Does libwsutil need to be its own library? Jeff Morriss (Dec 03)