Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.8.11 fails to build: "toshiba" undefined references

[Sean Kelly <S.Kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:52:37 -0700, Guy Harris said:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:19:52AM -0400, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
>  > Since we know that /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 is the good version, I'd go so far
>  > as to remove (or rename, to be safe) both /usr/lib/libz.a and
>  > /usr/local/X11R6/lib/lib.z. You don't need the /usr/lib/libz.a unless you
>  > want to create statically linked versions of executables.
>  
>  I'd be inclined to remove only "/usr/local/X11R6/lib/libz.a", as
>  "/usr/lib/libz.a" is presumably 1.1.3.
>  
>  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).

	Removing /usr/local/X11R6/lib/libz.a solved the problem. 
Ethereal 0.8.11 built correctly after that.

	Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions,

-- 
Sean Kelly <S.Kelly@xxxxxxxxx>
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