Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.8.11 fails to build: "toshiba" undefined reference

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:37:42 -0700
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:52:37PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> I'm talking with one of the XFree86 developers about another issue; I'll
> ask him whom we should complain to about this (the Open Group X releases
> should, at minimum, get a later version of libz, and, arguably, they
> should use their own libz *ONLY* on platforms that don't already have
> it, and arguably shouldn't install it at all, even on platforms that
> don't have libz, unless it's used by some X *libraries* that get
> installed).

XFree86 - and, I suspect, X11R6.x from x.org - have in the imake config
files a boolean HasZlib, which should be set to YES in the config file
for your system if it comes with zlib.

Sean should probably file a bug with the Slackware folk, informing them
that, given that Slackware 7.1 appears to come with zlib, they should
have a Slackware.cf file, or something such as that, in the
"xc/config/cf" directory of the XFree86 source, which, at least for
those versions of Slackware with zlib, does

	#ifndef HasZlib
	#define HasZlib		YES
	#endif

so that they don't give you two versions of zlib, one shiny and new and
one old and crufty.