ports/144976: import of zlib 1.2.4 may break code defining _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE

[Javier Villavicencio]

On 25/03/2010 08:34 p.m., delphij at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: import of zlib 1.2.4 may break code defining _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> Take.  Do we have any packages known to broken with the new zlib?
> (Debian uses newer zlib for their testing branch so maybe they have
> some knowledge about this anyways)
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144976
>

Alexis first encountered it on gnome-vfs and I found it later on cmake, 
however cmake on FreeBSD ports uses it's own bundled zlib (1.2.3), on 
Gentoo we make it use the system's zlib, which blows up if it's 1.2.4, 
because of off64_t.

Hope this helps!
Salu2,
Javier.