Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] zlib version upgrade - security issue

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Thomas Boehne wrote:
--snippage--
>> Maybe the downloaded files and the unzipped directories should be in
>> different directories; than we could always delete the whole directory
>> with all unzipped files on make clean (or distclean or whatever). This
>> would increase the build time by some seconds, but IMHO, the current
>> behaviour is a security problem, since we link with old libraries
>> without recognizing it.
>>  
>>
> I thought it would be already the case that the libs are deleted before
> next usage. Gerald, any ideas?

This would be a royal pain in the a*** building with MSCV7 if it
overwrote the carefully hand built zlib ( as explained in
http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development_2fMSVC7 )

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