Hello Burton,

Sunday, January 25, 2004, 8:41:29 PM, you wrote:

> Interesting.  And it makes NO SENSE.

> Because all that function really does is suppress the TESTING for zlib in
> ./configure.  There's no code changes that respect the MAKE_WITH_ZLIB flag.
> All the code that calls gzopen() et al is still in there and still live...

> Wild guess.  Is this Linux?  New Linux, like 2.4.20+ with the zlib kernel
> option???

> -----Burton


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
>> Of Vilius Sumskas
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:14 PM
>> To: Burton M. Strauss III
>> Subject: Re[2]: [Ntop-dev] gzflush problems
>>
>>
>> Hello Burton,
>>
>> Sunday, January 25, 2004, 5:55:35 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > It's not MAKE_WITH_ZLIB 0, it's #undef MAKE_WITH_ZLIB
>>
>> > #define MAKE_WITH_ZLIB 0
>>
>> > means that the tests, e.g #ifdef MAKE_WITH_ZLIB, will succeed (it IS
>> > defined, right?)
>>
>> > Now the underlying problem is one of malloc() memory
>> corruption, which has
>> > not occurred in any current version of the OS/glibc that I'm
>> aware of since
>> > late summer.  You may need to upgrade your glibc (which is a huge
>> > undertaking - better to update the whole OS, as it's less work).
>>
>> > I'll look at putting --without-zlib back in to
>> > ./configure, but if it causes
>> > problems in the code, I will NOT do it.
>>
>>
>> Just checkedout cvs. Configured and compiled with --without-zlib. Both
>> gzflush error AND problem with .gz files fixed. Thanks a lot!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Vilius

It is redhat 7.2 with 2.4.20-28.7 kernel. How do I check if it is with
"zlib kernel option" ?

-- 
Best regards,
 Vilius

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