I have installed automake and autoconf but still get this error I have make-reg-dotc.py in the same directory where I run make from
bash-2.03$ make make all-recursive Making all in tools Making all in lemon Making all in wiretap make all-am Making all in doc Making all in epan make all-recursive Making all in ftypes Making all in dfilter Making all in plugins Making all in artnet Making all in docsis Making all in giop Making all in gryphon Making all in lwres Making all in megaco Making all in mgcp Making all in pcli Making all in rtnet Making all in packaging Making all in rpm Making all in SPECS Making all in svr4 Making all in nsis Making all in gtk Making register.c with python bash: ./make-reg-dotc.py: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `register.c' Current working directory /scratch/users/ukoul/Ethereal/ethereal-0.9.15 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /scratch/users/ukoul/Ethereal/ethereal-0.9.15 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 Guy Harris wrote : > >On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Jonty Ray wrote: > >> I am trying to add a dissector and have added 2 .c files and 2 .h files and also >> updated the Makefile to reflect that. > >Don't do that. We don't support people directly editing Makefile. > >Update "Makefile.am" instead. Make sure you have autoconf and automake on your >system. > >> However I get this error when I run the Make File >> >>make: Warning: Can't find `.deps/packet-tpl1l1c.Po': No such file or directory >>make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 2037: Read of include file >>`.deps/packet-tpl1l1c.Po' failed >> >> How do i generate this .Po file for my source files ? > >You do that by updating Makefile.am and trying the make again, so that the >automake-generated Makefile knows that it *has* to generate that dependency file. >