[X-Unix] ethereal for MacOSX

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hi Ken! Well, it just so happens that Fink's alternative, DarwinPorts, 
also offers ethereal for Mac OS X. In any case, as far as I can see, 
ethereal compiles from source cleanly on Mac OS X, without the need of 
any patch (I've done this with the 0.9.14 release). But if you can't be 
bothered to do that I'd advise you to surf over to 
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org and join the project. It might be a 
bit of a nuisance at first because you have to fetch it over CVS, but 
once everything is in place it pays for itself. I'm an active 
DarwinPorts user and "contributor wannabe" and am well satisfied with 
what it offers. With just one command I can have ethereal, nmap, dsniff 
and around 900 other software titles fetched, configured, compiled and 
installed.

	Regarding ethereal specifically, I've been known among DarwinPorts 
developers to be quite whimsical about it, hehe! (mainly because I 
dislike tcpdump). Upon my constant requests a no-X11 build variant was 
included to the port (meaning that only tethereal, the command line 
utility, and not ethereal, the GUI, gets built). The release version 
was also upped to 0.9.16 and then to 0.10.0a, but unfortunately that 
last one is severely broken. To fix my mistake I learned a bit about 
diff(1) and submitted a patch to the port which downgrades the release 
to 0.9.16 again, which is the one I currently have installed 
(unfortunately the patch has not been included yet in the live CVS 
repository, so the patch resides locally). If you're interested then 
either let me know or join the darwinports at opendarwin.org mailing list, 
you'll find lots of info there. You can also reach a lot of DarwinPorts 
users and developers at the irc #opendarwin channel on the freenode 
network.

	Hope that helps! Regards,...


		Juan


On Feb 2, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Ken Rossman wrote:

> Has anyone out there found, fetched, and is running ethereal under 
> MacOSX?
>
> I see where there are projects in progress now to get ethereal working
> for MacOSX, and I have been directed at the fink distributions to find
> a working version, but I have so far been unsuccessful in obtaining a
> version of ethereal for MacOSX.
>
> Anyone out there actually running ethereal under MacOSX, and if so, 
> where did
> you find it?
>
> Thanks!
> KR
>
> Ken Rossman
> rossman at columbia.edu
> G3 iBook/600MHz/640MB/10.2.8
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