fubar'd libz

[ara.t.howard]

hi all-

a while back i started having application throw errors complaining  
about libz.  things like:

   cfp:/opt/local/lib > gem --version

   cfp:/opt/local/lib > gem --version 2>&1|less
   dyld: NSLinkModule() error
   dyld: Symbol not found:
   <snip binary>
   Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib
   Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib

i haven't done any manual compiling in there at all - just port  
installs of various packages.

anyhow, i moved /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib to /opt/local/lib/libz. 
1.dylib.org to see if the linker would pick on something compatible  
and, for the most part it has.  however, now i can't compile anything  
that links against things like libcrypto, etc, that originally linked  
against libz.1.dylib: the compilation will abort with symbols not found.

so basically what i have is a libz which seems to have gotten  
clobbered - some stuff needs the old one and some the newest (1.2.3)  
one.

back in linux land i know how to address these issues but, here on  
the mac, i'm not sure where to begin.

can anyone give me advice on figuring out what happened and how to fix?

kind regards.

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