Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-bugs] [Bug 304] Assertion in gdate.c line 850

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:09:07 -0600
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> bugzilla-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>>
>> Ethereal complains about libcairo-2.dll not found and terminates right
>> away. Build 16834 installed in a completely fresh folder on my machine
>> to not disturb the existing (and working) Ethereal installation with
>> my hard worked GDK update ;-)
>>  
>>
> This seems to be a bug in the buildbot generation. The
> libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll from the installer is the gtk2.8 version, which
> is certainly wrong as we are using 2.6.
> 
> The installer I create myself is just working fine (without any
> modifications to the build process).
> 
> Probably some "old" files from the GTK2.8 still lying around at the
> "fetch win32 libraries" step?
> 
> Gerald, could you have a look?

That was the case.  "win32-setup.sh" passes "-n" to unzip, which means
it never overwrites preexisting files.  When any of the Win32 libraries
change, the old libraries have to be cleared out by hand.  I hadn't done
this on the Windows build server.  It should be fixed now.