[Zlib-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Let libminizip makefile build minizip, miniunzip by default

[jbowler at acm.org]

Minizip

From: zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net [mailto:zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net] On Behalf Of Mark Adler
>I agree with Mike -- these are not intended to be installed utilities.

Please tell me if I'm misunderstanding something here - it is very likely.

Gentoo has a set of patches that enable the minizip configure buil.  The Gentoo patches have the comment "signed & improved from Fedora".  The latest builds of Gentoo also include the zapping ZLIB_VER hack ("sed -i "s:@ZLIB_VER@:${PV}:" configure.ac || die").

When I've tested previous candidates I've discovered that the option to install minzip is *required* to have a working Gentoo installation (this depends on the packages I installed, but some of them require minizip - a Gentoo expert could easily list them.)

My conclusion is that somewhere down the line minizip has become an installed utility.  I'm very willing to be refuted; I certainly agree with Mark.

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>