[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.3-cos2

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Cosmin Truta <cosmin at cs.toronto.edu> schrieb:

<snip>

> I applied Enrico Weigelt's patches, including the pkgconfig patch, but
> excluding the destdir patch and the treebuild patch. I find destdir
> pointless (why not just run "make prefix=/my/prefix" as it is customary
> with other software?) 

Because $prefix is just the prefix of several directories (ie. $libdir)
within the system tree, where $DESTDIR specifies where the system root
is while the installation procedure. $prefix is also relevant for runtime,
where $DESTDIR is not.

<snip>

> - Rename zconf.in.h to zconf.h.in [Truta]
> 
> Most other open-source code that I have seen are having file.ext and
> file.ext.in, not file.in.ext. Now, with the introduction of zlib.pc.in
> in zlib, I think it makes sense to rename zconf.in.h to zconf.h.in. All
> references to the former zconf.in.h are updated as well.

ACK.

> **
> 
> There is a change that doesn't have a changelog entry. Instead, I
> updated the changelog in-place:

Apropos changelog: is there any reason for not using full names
w/ email addresses ?


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