Re: [Wireshark-commits] master e282c19: autotools: Fix multiple repetitions of -L build flags

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 22-02-2016 14:28, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Wireshark code review
> <code-review-do-not-reply () wireshark org
> <mailto:code-review-do-not-reply () wireshark org>> wrote:
>
>     e282c19 by João Valverde (joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt
>     <mailto:joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>):
>
>          autotools: Fix multiple repetitions of -L build flags
>
>          Before:
>
>            WS_LDFLAGS=' -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib
>     -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>          After:
>
>            WS_LDFLAGS=' -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>          Bumps autoconf required version to 2.64.
>
>
> FWIW this means Wireshark master (to become 2.2) will no longer work on
> RHEL/CentOS 6 (which has autoconf 2.63).  I don't seem to have an easy
> way to check SLES.
>
> If 2.2 is really going to drop support for Gtk+ then it's a moot point
> (since the Qt interface won't compile on RHEL 6 either) but I wanted to
> point this out just in case.  (There are a lot of RHEL/CentOS 6 users
> out there and that will likely continue to be the case for a while.)
>
> (I'm no longer in a position to be too worried about losing support for
> RHEL 6 but others may feel differently.)

It's not losing support. It will build and run fine from a tarball or 
binary package.
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