Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] problem while make'ing: "wiretap/file.c:93: undefined reference to `gzseek'"

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You must compile and install Zlib. I had an ancient version of Zlib in
> my system which didn't  work. I'm not sure what module needs it, but
> one of the autoconf routines should warn about the needed presence of
> Zlib.

The autoconf routine *should* have done more than just warn about it -
it should've stopped and not further configured the software, or
should've concluded that he didn't have a version of Zlib that's good
enough, and not configured Ethereal and Wiretap to use Zlib!

Somebody else had, as I remember, a similar problem; we (the Ethereal
developers) would like to fix it, if it's a deficiency in the
"configure" scripts.

If the original poster hasn't yet installed Zlib, could they, before
doing so:

	re-run the configure script, saving the output (e.g., with
	"script");

	mail the output, and the "config.log" file in the top-level and
	"wiretap" directories, to "ethereal-dev";

so we can see whether there's a deficiency in our "configure" scripts.