Re: Compilation issue on Mac OS

[ajay saxena <aileronajay () gmail com>]

This is what i get for gcc --version


Ajays-MacBook-Pro:wireshark ajasaxen$ gcc --version

Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1

Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)

Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.5.0

Thread model: posix

InstalledDir:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:33 PM, ajay saxena <aileronajay () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Though the compile failed at a different file
> >
> > addr_resolv.c:91:11: fatal error: 'ares.h' file not found
> > # include <ares.h>
>
> So it's failing for files in the epan directory, not just for files in
> epan/dissectors.
>
> > and this file too is present in the /usr/local/include. So i think
> AM_CPPFLAGS is not searching my /usr/local/include.
>
> Makefile variables don't search anything.  *Compilers* search something.
>
> The question here is why the compiler isn't searching /usr/local/include.
> Unfortunately, what the LLVM project calls a "manual" for Clang:
>
>         http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html
>
> isn't a very *good* manual - for example, it doesn't describe the include
> file search rules anywhere, so it gives no indication of whether
> /usr/local/include is part of the default search path and, if it's not
> always part of the default search path, when it's not.
>
> Now, on your system, the autotools make use something called "gcc", but
> that might just be Clang, rather than GCC, if you haven't explicitly
> installed GCC.  What does "gcc --version" print?
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