[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:17:29AM +0000, Geoff wrote:
> Of course this would not explain why 0.9.7 is trying to use zlib
> when it cannot find a copy that it likes.

Good question.  The configure script should be checking whether the zlib
with which Ethereal would be linked - which is *not* necessarily the one
with which Tethereal would be linked, thanks to X11 possibly having a
crappy old version - has "gzgets()"; the script would check "for gzgets
missing when linking with X11", and report "old zlib found when linking
with X11 - get rid of old zlib." if it finds the crappy old zlib.

Did that not happen when you ran the configure script before you got rid
of the crappy old zlib?  If not, what happens if you put back the crappy
old zlib, do a "make distclean" in the top-level Ethereal source
directory, and run the configure script?