[Walter <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've experienced this many times before... It's because of Xfree86
> (possibly only 4.x)... It includes a libz that doesn't include the
> functions, which is in the sharedlib path first, but the link path for
> gcc has the /usr/lib/libz one, which does have the functions in it.

I'm using Xfree86 4.x, installed by hand.  So it's not Slackware's 
fault, for the record ;)   

So in order to resolve this, I should go find libz on freshmeat or 
something and overwrite it?  Is that what you did?

Guy, do you still want me to send the logs to ethereal-dev?

- Walter