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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2018-04-24 21:27:51 -0700
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2018-04-25 04:29:25 +0000
commit9e8f8921a3fb61f0170776505ed80f3989019cf3 (patch)
tree8febdddb48a7ee11f84cc28572af80568213f26d /doc
parent372b8202555806287dc38ba35e5df10c5d82102a (diff)
Get rid of a no-longer-needed README file.
Now that we only support CMake, that file would be reduced to Wireshark is built using CMake. which doesn't justify keeping it around. Change-Id: I07d0ce0689ab274fd6c7dff3d8e5a8b31e110cbb Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/27139 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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-Wireshark can be built using either CMake or autotools.
-
-CMake is supported on all platforms and required for building on Windows and
-macOS.
-
-Autotools is supported on UNIX and UNIX-like systems (other than macOS). Generally
-we prefer to require a portable make rather than writing portable makefiles[1].
-That means GNU Make. See also [2] for all the pitfalls involved in writing portable
-makefiles. However requiring very recent GNU Make versions is discouraged
-out of ease-of-use concerns. Currently Wireshark should build with any
-reasonably recent GNU Make version (released say in the last ten years).
-
-You are encouraged to report any autotools portability problems in the Wireshark
-bug tracker[3] but please be advised that vanilla POSIX make is generally not
-sufficiently powerful (or convenient) to build a large software project like
-Wireshark so GNU Make is the target implementation. In particular it is an
-explicit goal to support VPATH builds.
-
-[1]http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/rules-of-makefiles/
-[2]https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/html_node/Portable-Make.html#Portable-Make
-[3]https://bugs.wireshark.org