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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:47:12
Message-Id: j5iukv$v5h$1@dough.gmane.org
1 I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2
2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those
3 revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's
4 zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of packages stopped
5 building. Bug reports for broken packages come in and then are being
6 modified to fit Gentoo's zlib.
7
8 Breaking compatibility with upstream zlib also means that non-portage
9 software, the ones I install with "./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr &&
10 make install", also won't build.
11
12 It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that
13 deals with it was locked from public view:
14
15 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179
16
17 Is there a plan for this, or will we have to live with what is
18 essentially an incompatible Gentoo fork of zlib?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>