[Zlib-devel] problems with elinks and wireshark using zlib >= 1.2.3.5

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am Freitag, 29. Januar 2010 20:07:07 schrieb Mark Adler:
> Can you capture the temporary file?

Sorry for the two weeks delay. The problem with elinks only exists in their 
current stable 0.11; the 0.12 branch works fine. So let us just hope this 
wasn't a zlib issue.

There are two bug report in the wireshark bug tracker about the 
incompatibility with zlib >= 1.2.3.5 (including the just released 1.2.3.8). 
The first one also includes such a problematic capture file:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4443
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4439
But it looks like upstream considered this as zlib bug. I fear I cannot help 
here that much except interlinking the two projects. 

A similar problem was reported for ZynAddSubFX (don't ask me what this program 
is about). A patch was attached to that report; maybe it helps to decide 
whether this was a zlib issue or not: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2946492&group_id=62934&atid=502312

Sorry for just dumping these vague report on you. By far the most programs 
have no issues with the new versions of zlib; and we probably tested a lot of 
them. :-)

Greetings,

Pierre

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre