RE: [PATCH 1/2] configure: add a fallback check for zlib

Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] configure: add a fallback check for zlib

Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 01:01:34 +0300

To: Felipe Contreras, Xīcò, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Tomi Ollila

On Sun, May 11 2014, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> Xīcò wrote:
>> Since zlib is part of the base system, FreeBSD chose not to register it
>> in pkg-config through zlib.pc. As a fallback test, configure will build
>> and run a zlib version check and make sure the header and library
>> versions are compatible.
>
> We could try to generate our on zlib.pc, this way the configure script
> would be cleaner.

But for that we'd need to figure out the version, and is there simpler
robust way to do that some other way ?

Xīcò: zv4=2 instead of zv4=1 (1.2.5.2)

> -- 
> Felipe Contreras

Tomi

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