[Ethereal-dev] Re: Preparing for 1.0

["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Can we please add something like "Better support for OpenBSD" or even
> > "OpenBSD binaries on our site"?
> > I do not use OpenBSD, but I have friends who do and they often complain  
> > to me
> > about the difficulty of getting Ethereal working.  One had a problem  
> > recently
> > with the number of open files required, for example.  He said he had to  
> > up
> > his quota from 128 (he set it at 512) in order to get Ethereal to start.
> Hmmm, one solution might be for these friends to post patches when they
> solve OpenBSD problems ... :-)

Here is one set of instructions for building on OpenBSD.  It is heavily  
based on http://www.linbsd.org/ethereal_on_openbsd38.html which is  
referenced in the wiki:

http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/openbsd-dell.html

This page also references his experience with the open files problem.

--john
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