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Error with ./autogen.sh “Custom.m4 does not exist”

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I'm trying to add my own plugin to the wireshark build. I followed all the instructions in README.plugins down to a tee.

When I try to run ./autogen.sh I get an error saying:

Checking for python. aclocal -I ./aclocal-fallback configure.in:1761: file `plugins/Custom.m4' does not exist

Previously when I got the error(when I wasn't trying to add a plugin) I just skipped that one and went with ./configure and the build worked. However if I do that now the configure doesn't create a plugins/xxx/Makefile for my plugin.

What am I doing wrong?

asked 07 Feb '11, 09:42

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So I tried to combat that issue, by going into configure and manually adding my own entries for my plugin. I just followed the format it used for the other plugins.

Now ./configure creates the makefile but when I run 'make' I get this error:

cd . && /bin/bash /home/negrabee/Downloads/wireshark-1.4.3/missing --run aclocal-1.9 ./aclocal-flags configure.in:1761: file `plugins/Custom.m4' does not exist make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

answered 07 Feb '11, 09:55

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