[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> That's a patch taken from the Gentoo port. Obviously it checks
> whether the compiler supports the visibility attribute to hide
> non-public symbols.

So "non-public" means symbols that are exported between source files, but not intended to be part of the user interface?

> 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.

Only one set of functions is compiled for a given build.

Mark