[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Enrico Weigelt]

Mark Adler wrote:

Hi,

> On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>>    (gentoo) symbol visibility
>>    http://repo.or.cz/w/oss-qm-packages.git/commit/5f6ae600dd2612a9339236b6f3cac8db4a353fce
> 
> What is all that about "visibility"?

That's a patch taken from the Gentoo port. Obviously it checks
whether the compiler supports the visibility attribute to hide
non-public symbols.

Actually I'm not sure whether this is still required (the referred
tickets are a bit old ;-o)

>> BTW: do we already have a way for building without old version
>> support ? (for embedded/low-footprint targets)
> 
> I don't understand that question.  What is "without old version support"?

IIRC we now have multiple versions of some functions (the libxml issue),
I'd like to see a way for getting rid of the old ones at compile time.


cu
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