Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] random data on dump window

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From: itojun@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:50:37 +0900
>Do you have "zlib" configured in?  (The code path for reading files is
>different in versions with "zlib" configured in and with "zlib" not
>configured in, and there's a problem with "zlib" on FreeBSD that I
>worked around by arranging that Wiretap not define HAVE_UNISTD_H -
>perhaps NetBSD has a problem with "zlib" if you *don't* define
>HAVE_UNISTD_H.)

	You are right!

	without any option to configure, it have found OS-supplied libz.a
	(/usr/lib/libz.a) and it caused the trouble.
	With --disable-zlib, the code worked just fine.  I'll try to find
	more fundamental way of solving this.

itojun