Xīcò <xico@atelo.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:46:00AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
>> > int main(void)
>> > {
>> >     return(ZLIB_VERNUM >= 0x1252);
>> > }
>> 
>> OK, that sounds like it could work.  Ideally, somebody on FreeBSD could
>> check...
>> 
>> d
>
> Such check will work on FreeBSD, and would be great!
>

Great. Now somebody just needs to make it. 

> As a side note, is there any rationale for the hand-made configure? Not
> that I am a big fan of autoconf/cmake/whatever either...

Carl Worth had a lot of (negative) experience with autoconf when he
started the project, which motivated him to roll his own.  Personally I
don't really think any of the alternatives are convincingly better than
autoconf. Of course it's one of those very subjective things.

d