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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:40:45 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails
Message-ID:  <BE901C9E-4158-45E3-8DEB-44900512C0EC@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <868B0824-7FFC-418A-A267-2A6D025FB4C7@boosten.org>
References:  <4D0726F2.6070703@boosten.org> <AANLkTimx55S7U_20-N5A3g1-%2BuuPJSjyi7t-X286_4O-@mail.gmail.com> <868B0824-7FFC-418A-A267-2A6D025FB4C7@boosten.org>

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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

> 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

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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