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.
