[Zlib-devel] libminizip as part of zlib distribution

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Schrober wrote:

> it seems that many tools started to use the core of minizip as part of their 
> source code. This is quite problematic for distributions since they have to 
> manually fix those files in case of an (security) bug. Therefore, it seems to 
> be better to provide a library which can be linked by all programs which need 
> it.
[...]
> Would it be possible to include the patch from Gentoo or a similar one with 
> the next distribution of zlib?

Your patch looks good to me.  However, it would be the first use of Autoconf
in zlib/contrib, so maybe there would be interest in a patch to make it a
little lower-tech (see "Why don't you use GNU autoconf or libtool or ...?"
in the FAQ) on top of that.

Thanks,
Jonathan