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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22


Jorg,
you _do realise_ that libz is part of xfree86 nowadays - the one in the
main cygwin distro.... is a fork. Suhaibis correct.

What may/should happen in the future is that the xfree86 one is built as
cyglibz.dll and replaces the current one in cygwin contrib.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Schaible, Jörg" <Joerg.Schaible@gft.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22


Hi there,

>> > Alan:
>> >  I would luike that cygz.dll patch reversed you applied to CVS.
>> > I would prefer to stick with our own libz.dll, instead of
>> > a forked dll.
>> >
>> I find that surprisingly odd that the cygwin folk have dumped this in
>> contrib.
>>
>> I'll reverse it of course.
>
>It is not really main cygwin developer who forked it from master libz.
>Therefore it is in contrib directory, THEREFORE I am opposed to linked
>any thing which is forked from master and dumped into contrib
>directory.
>
>Thanks for reversing it.

IMHO your behaviour is contra-productive, since AFAIK all Cygwin DLLs
will
have now a cyg prefix instead of lib. The binutils maintainer has
applied
this path officially to the package, so the cygz.dll *is* the official
Cygwin version and there is no other around. This was done due to
incompatibilities with MS-DOS versions of this DLL named also libz.dll
in
various non-Cygwin ports (and therefore is not a forked version). *If*
the
server is a Cygwin app it *should* use cygz.dll.

You may have a look at the real long discussion on this topic searching
the
Cygwin mailing list.

Don't ge me wrong, I don't wanna start any flame war. I just wanna
prevent
that the Cygwin xfree package will start to become incompatible to the
standard Cygwin package - at least as far as I understand the topic.

Greetings,
Jörg



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