Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem compiling 0.9.7

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 14:12:20 -0800
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:54:57PM +0000, Geoff wrote:
> I got the clue.  I had /usr/X11R6/lib/libz.a and and a null
> response to nm -p etc on that file.  I renamed it temporarily and
> ethereal found zlib and compiled.  Maybe I should just make
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libz.a a symlink to the good /usr/lib/libz.a.

Or rebuild X11R6 from scratch with "linux.cf" in the "xc/config/cf"
directory modified to define HasZlib to YES, so that it uses the zlib
that comes with the OS rather than building its own crufty old zlib and
using that.