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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-03-25 19:45:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-03-25 19:45:29 +0000 |
| commit | 2101397e4042ee9fe166d731ddae40a146df9d6c (patch) | |
| tree | 600e62829fcf8497ae5671b76a88842e48da05b3 /wiretap/file_wrappers.c | |
| parent | 613d74ef8ce216267224d990356b0a9904b68698 (diff) | |
Update a comment to discuss how zlib and z_off_t has gotten messier lately.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=32280
Diffstat (limited to 'wiretap/file_wrappers.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | wiretap/file_wrappers.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/file_wrappers.c b/wiretap/file_wrappers.c index 9692251624..ccd8209532 100644 --- a/wiretap/file_wrappers.c +++ b/wiretap/file_wrappers.c @@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ * "wtap-int.h", put "file_error()" into a file by itself, which can * cheerfully include "wtap.h" and get "gzseek()" misdeclared, and include * just "zlib.h" in this file - *after* undefining HAVE_UNISTD_H. + * + * XXX - this is not working with zlib 1.2.4 and, at least on some non- + * 4.4-Lite-derived systems (such as some Linux distributions), with + * some earlier versions of zlib. Perhaps the configure script should + * check whether off_t is long or not and, if it is, just trust zlib + * to work without this mess. That won't help with zlib 1.2.4, as + * if you build and install that on OS X, which *is* 4.4-Lite-derived, + * it still doesn't work right. */ #ifdef __OpenBSD__ #ifndef HAVE_UNISTD_H |