Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

Peter Boosten peter at boosten.org
Tue Dec 14 18:53:11 UTC 2010


On 14 dec 2010, at 19:40, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Peter Boosten wrote:
>> gzip is in the base system, and there are, AFAICT, no header files for gzip.
> 
> I regret to disagree  :-), but:
> 
> % head -2 /usr/include/zlib.h
> /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library
>  version 1.2.3, July 18th, 2005
> 

Chuck,

Thanks for your answer. I looked for a gzip.h, but obviously didn't find one :-)



>> gzlibcompressor.c however tries to include zlib.h, and it might or might not expect something that's in FreeBSD 8.1, but not in 8.0, however I cannot tell for sure.
>> 
>> Anyone can confirm this?
> 
> CVSweb suggests zlib.h header has been part of the system for 14+ years, ie, from FreeBSD-2.x era:
> 
>  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libz/zlib.h
> 

I found indeed no differences between 8.0 and 8.1.
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Peter Boosten
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