On Mar 23, 2010, at 22:32, Guy Harris wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
I'm not sure. I wiped the entire MacPorts installation and the
whole /opt/local tree and restarted from scratch by downloading the
Tiger version of MacPorts, installing it, then typing "port install
wireshark".
If it was built with a version of libz earlier than 1.2.4, this
might either be
1) a bug in libz 1.2.4
or
2) a bug in Wireshark, where it was using libz incorrectly in a
fashion that happened to work with earlier versions of libz but
doesn't work with libz 1.2.4
as
1) somebody else had a similar problem with Wireshark on Gentoo
Linux, and Wireshark was using libz 1.2.4 there
and
2) one of the changes in libz 1.2.4 was the "Wholesale replacement
of gz* functions with faster versions", those being the routines
Wireshark uses to read capture files when built with libz support.
Those routines are used even to read *uncompressed* files (the gz*
routines in libz handle figuring out whether the file is compressed
or not, and hides that from the application reading the file).
Any recommendations? Can I build the version of libz that predates
this wholesale replacement of gz* functions? Do you know which one
that was?
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