Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] linux package requirements for wireshark build

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 25, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Alan Partis <alpartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 25, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Alan Partis <alpartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> $  list zlib*
>>> Last metadata expiration check: 10:52:36 ago on Sat Jun 24 22:28:29 2017.
>>> Installed Packages
>>> zlib.i686                    1.2.8-10.fc24                @fedora
>>> zlib.x86_64                  1.2.8-10.fc24                @koji-override-0
>>> zlib-devel.i686              1.2.8-10.fc24                @fedora
>> 
>> So you have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the shared library
>> installed, but only a *32-bit* version of the development package?
>> 
>> That could probably confuse a configure script; it should fail in some
>> clearer fashion if you have that configuration and are configuring to
>> build a 64-bit version.
> 
> yessir
> 
> Attached recreated config.log per request ...

And, in fact, as per that log, it did confuse the configure script, because...

> Yes, this _particular_ problem is because I had both i686 and x86_64
> versions of the zlib package installed ... _and_  was missing zlib-devel.

...you *weren't* missing zlib-devel - you were missing the *64-bit version* of zlib-devel.

I have a fix:

	https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/22396/

which will cause the configuration process to fail if you can't link with zlib, but the CMake version of the fix found a bug in the way we configure libz on Windows, which I filed as bug 13850; that needs to be fixed before I can check my fix in.