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

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From: Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:09:29 +0000
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:57:38 -0800
Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Sigh.  The problem is that when the top-level configure script
> adds the compiler flags used to build GTK+ applications to
> CFLAGS before the test for zlib is done, which means that the
> test for zlib will find the crufty old zlib that's often part
> of X11R6 and think zlib is too old to use, while the configure
> script for Wiretap doesn't even check for GTK+, so its test for
> zlib will often find a newer good-enough-to-use system zlib.
> 
> We might not want to add the GTK+ flags to CFLAGS, although
> checking whether that breaks anything, and fixing stuff it does
> break, might be a bit of work.

Thanks for the feedback.  If you want someone to test
any fix that you may decide to apply, I will be happy to help.

Geoff
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