Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread Anders Broman
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org] För Jaap Keuter Skickat: den 28 januari 2010 00:05 Till: Developer support list for Wireshark Ämne: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes didier

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread Jaap Keuter
didier wrote: > Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 23:12 +0200, Gerasimos Dimitriadis a > écrit : >> Almost all of the string constants are used for initializing data >> structures, so an extra problem I think is that the contents of a >> strings array cannot be directly used for initializing e.g. the >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread didier
Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 23:12 +0200, Gerasimos Dimitriadis a écrit : > Almost all of the string constants are used for initializing data > structures, so an extra problem I think is that the contents of a > strings array cannot be directly used for initializing e.g. the > hf_register_info arr

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread Gerasimos Dimitriadis
Almost all of the string constants are used for initializing data structures, so an extra problem I think is that the contents of a strings array cannot be directly used for initializing e.g. the hf_register_info array, since constants are needed for that. A solution for that would be to initialize

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread didier
Hi, Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 14:56 +0100, Radek Vokál a écrit : > On 01/27/2010 09:32 AM, didier wrote: > > Hi, > > Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 00:54 -0700, Stephen Fisher a écrit : > >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: > >> > >>> The wireshark package cannot be b

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread Radek Vokál
On 01/27/2010 09:32 AM, didier wrote: > Hi, > Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 00:54 -0700, Stephen Fisher a écrit : >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: >> >>> The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI >>> limitation and RRC dissector source file which

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-27 Thread didier
Hi, Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 00:54 -0700, Stephen Fisher a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: > > > The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI > > limitation and RRC dissector source file which contains too many > > string constants.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-26 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: > The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI > limitation and RRC dissector source file which contains too many > string constants. That's not good :(. I didn't realize until now that packet-rrc.c is about 7MB o

[Wireshark-dev] Wireshark won't compile on PPC64 boxes

2010-01-26 Thread Radek Vokál
Hi all, I've recently reported following bug https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4346 The wireshark package cannot be build on ppc64 due to ppc64 ABI limitation and RRC dissector source file which contains too many string constants. So far I haven't been successful to workaro