From: Daniel M. <dm...@ne...> - 2004-07-29 23:01:49
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:16:21PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote: > David H. wrote: > >Blair Zajac wrote: > >| > >| The Compress::Zlib package currently compiles and links against it's own > >| private copy of zlib 1.1.4. This seems to be a waste of disk and memory > >| space when Mac OS X 103.3 comes with the same version of zlib (10.2 > >| still have 1.1.3, but I'm guessing it's probably patched). On my 10.3.4 machine, I have /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib [Blair's patch to link against system's zlib] > >That is not allowed. If the package brings its own zlib or there is a > >version of zlib IN Fink already it HAS to use that version. > >This is policy :) Or it can force the link to go to the system's always (regardless of whether one has the fink lib installed). But: > Fink doesn't have it's own zlib. ...at this time. It has in the past, however, and may again in the future. Not sure why fink dropped it, since we supplied a 1.1.4 package in the 10.1 tree. Maybe we should bring it back, and then have compress-zlib-pmXXX use it. dan -- Daniel Macks dm...@ne... http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks |