[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/2] package/snort: needs zlib

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sat Jan 11 13:20:56 UTC 2020


On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:38:37 +0100
Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:07:19 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:28:17 +0100
> > Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> wrote:
> >  
> > > Fixes:
> > >
> > >   checking zlib.h usability... no
> > >   checking zlib.h presence... no
> > >   checking for zlib.h... no
> > >
> > >      ERROR!  zlib header not found, go get it from
> > >      http://www.zlib.net
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>  
> >
> > Since when is zlib needed? We've add the snort package for quite some
> > time. Is it due to the bump to 2.9.15 in December ?  
> 
> No, I think it is a side effect of 'package/libpcap: remove unnecessary dependency
> on zlib' ([1]) as snort selects/depends on libpcap...

Ah, yes, indeed.

Thanks,

Thomas
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