Re: Problem compiling Wireshark 1.6.1

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 8/29/11 11:18 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:58 PM, Helge Kruse wrote:
>
> > What program package is EVAR, never heard about it.
>
> It's not a package, it's just me being sarcastic about Cygwin providing a port of the UN*X "mt" command; "EVAR" is a 
> misspelling of, and capitalization of, "ever", in the style of mocking excessively-enthusiastic e-mail/Web forum/etc. 
> messages.
>
> I think at least once I've had my path set incorrectly when building Wireshark on Windows, and getting the wrong 
> command run - a Cygwin port of some UN*X command being run instead of some other Windows tool that had the same name 
> but was a different tool.  I think that's happened for me at least once with "mt" - and, if not me, with somebody 
> else asking wireshark-dev about it.
>
> That's why I wanted you to run "where mt.exe", to see whether it was picking up Cygwin's "mt".  From the output you 
> got, it appears that it wasn't picking up Cygwin's "mt", so that's apparently not the cause of the problem.

I checked in a change in r38781 to make sure "mt" spins manifests
instead of motors.
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