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| -rw-r--r-- | README.cmake | 18 |
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diff --git a/README.cmake b/README.cmake index 2b6fdea3b7..94b06a723f 100644 --- a/README.cmake +++ b/README.cmake @@ -127,10 +127,26 @@ What needs to be done? Solaris, Win32, Win64, ...) - Support building against an SDK for OS X. - Add support for cmake configurations. -- Get plugins loading when running *shark from the build directory. - Automatically figure out if *shark is running from the build directory (making WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY unnecessary like it is with autofoo). + Sadly: + + $ file run/qtshark + run/qtshark: Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 executable + + so what you're running from the build directory is the executable + itself. autofoo includes libtool in our case, so what you're running + from the build directory is a script that then runs the executable, + and the executable is in a .libs directory; the code that checks for + "running from the build directory?" checks for that. + + We could perhaps check for the pathname containing "run/", although + that wouldn't help if we ran it while *in* the "run" directory; + getting an absolute path for the executable would be necessary for + that. +- Get plugins loading when running *shark from the build directory. + That might involve handling ".libs" and "run" differently. - Get cross-compilation working (or ensure it does). It works with autofoo. ... |