Hi,
I've just finished compiling and running the ethereal package, great
piece of work.
However I found a minor glitch doing the makefiles.
I started the ./configure without any arguments to see how it gets.
The ./configure went fine and I looked the generated Makefile, at first
sight all seems ok, so I started the make process...
After a while the make program complained about not finding the zlib
package (which was succesfully found in the configure step). So, I've
started digging in the makefile to see what went wrong, and I've
discovered that only the /usr/local/lib was included.
I've changed the following line in the generated Makefile
LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/lib
for
LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib
Started the compilation again and everything went ok.
I'm using Linux Red Hat Version 6.1 with the zlib package installed from
the rpm.
rpm -qa | grep -i zlib
zlib-1.1.3-5
zlib-devel-1.1.3-5
rpm -qs zlib-1.1.3-5
normal /usr/lib/libz.so.1
normal /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3
rpm -qs zlib-devel-1.1.3-5
normal /usr/doc/zlib-devel-1.1.3
normal /usr/doc/zlib-devel-1.1.3/ChangeLog
normal /usr/doc/zlib-devel-1.1.3/README
normal /usr/doc/zlib-devel-1.1.3/algorithm.txt
normal /usr/include/zconf.h
normal /usr/include/zlib.h
normal /usr/include/zutil.h
normal /usr/lib/libz.a
normal /usr/lib/libz.so
normal /usr/man/man3/zlib.3
And it's the only copy of the zlib package that I've got, so it can't be
a mismatching libs. (the usual /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib) ;)
Maybe I've missed something in the configure script, but the only
reference to a zlib library was the --enable-zlib or for the library
--libdir.
the --libdir I'm not sure if you can enter --libdir=/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib I didn't try that, it was easier to change the Makefile
rather than trying to tweak the configure script ;)
Thanks in advance for reading, and by the way I'd appreciate a reply
explaining about the --libdir but I think it's where the compiled
library (e.g. ethereal plugins) will go in a make install step, but I'm
not sure. I've check the configure script more closely and it's what
I've understood from the search.
Regards,
Bruno Tardif
P.S.: I don't write often in english so please bear with me the
sentences ;)
