Re: [PATCH] gzclose_r() and gzclose_w() are not available in older...

Subject: Re: [PATCH] gzclose_r() and gzclose_w() are not available in older...

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:24:31 +0200

To: Tomi Ollila, David Bremner, Ico Doornekamp, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jani Nikula

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>
>> I take the submitters word for the first version supporting gzclose
>
> I tried this patch on Scientific Linux 6.2 -- after applied it I changed
> the check to >= 1.2.3 (to the one used in sl62).
>
> This compiles fine but tests fails miserably.

zlib 1.2.5.2 (the version we currently require) was released
2011-12-17. I wouldn't put any effort into supporting an even older
version of zlib. We've dropped support for newer stuff (and we're still
pretty conservative).

BR,
Jani.

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