Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [PATCH] compress-zlib-pm to use system zlib.dylib

[David H. <dm...@us...>]

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Blair Zajac wrote:

| Daniel Macks wrote:
|
|> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
|>
|>> Daniel Macks wrote:
|>>
|>>> On my 10.3.4 machine, I have /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib
|>>
|>>
|>> Funny, I was looking at the header files to see which version OS X has:
|>>
|>> % less /usr/include/zlib.h
|>> /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library
|>>  version 1.1.4, March 11th, 2002
|>> ....
|>> ....
|>> #define ZLIB_VERSION "1.1.4"
|>
|>
|>
|> Oh, looks like 1.1.3 is just for backward compatibility:
|>   % ls -l /usr/lib/libz.*
|>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  56416 27 May 13:10
|> /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib*
|>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  56200 27 May 13:10 /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib*
|>   lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     12 21 May 11:22 /usr/lib/libz.dylib@
|> -> libz.1.dylib
|>   % strings /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib | grep Copyright
|>    deflate 1.1.3 Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly    inflate 1.1.3
|> Copyright 1995-1998 Mark Adler   % strings /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib |
|> grep Copyright
|>    deflate 1.1.4 Copyright 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly    inflate 1.1.4
|> Copyright 1995-2002 Mark Adler
|> So no need for fink to provide 1.1.4, and okay for the perl mod to
|> link system's lib IMO.
|
|
| OK.
|
| So I guess I'll remove the three files
|
| compress-zlib-pm560.info compress-zlib-pm580.info compress-zlib-pm581.info
|
| and replace them with a single compress-zlib-pm using Info2.

~                            ^^^^^^

I doubt you will be making many happy with that. There are many old
schoolers like me that simply hate Info format :)

- -d


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