Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:15:40AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > But that has nothing to do with the cyg prefix. The name of
> > the dll itself is in fact not worth to discuss. The problem
> > is in using _any_ other libz library besides the libz which
> > is provided by the Cygwin base distro. Moving it to latest
> > wouldn't be a problem but I don't think that matters.
> > 
> > What really matters are the problems which are raised by
> > providing another version of libz.a or libz.dll.a (note
> > the suffix) which load another {lib|cyg|red|foo}z.dll.
> 
> That I agree.  When you start putting the commonly used DLLs (libraries)
> in /usr/lib, we will consider linking against it.

Suhaib,

zlib is already installed in /usr/lib. When you grab it from contrib,
it puts a /usr/lib/libz.a and a /usr/lib/libz.dll.a and a /usr/bin/cygz.dll

Alan.