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authorGilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu>1999-08-03 16:33:12 +0000
committerGilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu>1999-08-03 16:33:12 +0000
commit48a5d3ee58c22f441b1e7404a72cfe27cd8d14a2 (patch)
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parentaebcf2eb32cc8693056172c2ed7718880f2db85d (diff)
Update documentation, including display filter docs.
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@@ -34,13 +34,9 @@ It should run on other systems without too much trouble.
NOTE: the Makefile appears to depend on GNU "make"; it doesn't appear to
work with the "make" that comes with Solaris 7 nor the BSD "make".
-In addition, wiretap (see below) requires "flex" - it cannot be built
-with vanilla "lex" - and either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc"; whilst
-the "yacc" that comes with Solaris 7 has a "-p" flag to replace "yy" in
-various variable names with a specified prefix, to allow multiple
-yacc-built parsers in the same program, it doesn't replace "yy" in the
-"y.tab.h" file, so the lexical analyzer has no clue that "yylval" has
-been renamed to "wtap_lval". (What *were* they thinking?)
+In addition, ethereal requires "flex" - it cannot be built
+with vanilla "lex" - and either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc". Your flex
+version must be 2.5.1 or greater. Check this with 'flex -V'.
You must therefore install GNU "make", "flex", and either "bison" or
Berkeley "yacc" on systems that lack them.