[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4.1 beta

Mark Adler madler at alumni.caltech.edu
Sun Mar 28 15:15:43 EDT 2010


zlibbers,

You can find the 1.2.4.1 beta here:

    http://zlib.net/current/beta/

There is a big fat stinking bug in gzseek() and so I will be issuing a zlib 1.2.5 very soon to fix that.  (New features will wait until 1.2.6.)  Please test this version.  Thanks!

Mark


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Changes in 1.2.4.1 (28 Mar 2010)
- Remove the use of [a-z] constructs for sed in configure [gentoo 310225]
- Remove $(SHAREDLIB) from LIBS in Makefile.in [Creech]
- Restore "for debugging" comment on sprintf() in gzlib.c
- Remove fdopen for MVS from gzguts.h
- Put new README-WIN32.txt in win32 [Rowe]
- Add check for shell to configure and invoke another shell if needed
- Fix big fat stinking bug in gzseek() on uncompressed files
- Remove vestigial F_OPEN64 define in zutil.h
- Set and check the value of _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
- Avoid errors on non-LFS systems when applications define LFS macros
- Set EXE to ".exe" in configure for MINGW [Kahle]
- Match crc32() in crc32.c exactly to the prototype in zlib.h [Sherrill]
- Add prefix for cross-compilation in win32/makefile.gcc [Bar-Lev]
- Add DLL install in win32/makefile.gcc [Bar-Lev]
- Allow Linux* or linux* from uname in configure [Bar-Lev]
- Allow ldconfig to be redefined in configure and Makefile.in [Bar-Lev]
- Add cross-compilation prefixes to configure [Bar-Lev]
- Match type exactly in gz_load() invocation in gzread.c
- Match type exactly of zcalloc() in zutil.c to zlib.h alloc_func
- Provide prototypes for *64 functions when building zlib without LFS
- Don't use -lc when linking shared library on MinGW
- Remove errno.h check in configure and vestigial errno code in zutil.h





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