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

[Wojciech Pilorz]

On fedora13 minizip is actually dynamic library only :
$ rpm -ql minizip; head -16 /usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.3/ChangeLogUnzip
/usr/lib64/libminizip.so.1
/usr/lib64/libminizip.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.3/ChangeLogUnzip
Change in 1.01e (12 feb 05)
- Fix in zipOpen2 for globalcomment (Rolf Kalbermatter)
- Fix possible memory leak in unzip.c (Zoran Stevanovic)

Change in 1.01b (20 may 04)
- Integrate patch from Debian package (submited by Mark Brown)
- Add tools mztools from Xavier Roche

Change in 1.01 (8 may 04)
- fix buffer overrun risk in unzip.c (Xavier Roche)
- fix a minor buffer insecurity in minizip.c (Mike Whittaker)

Change in 1.00: (10 sept 03)
- rename to 1.00
- cosmetic code change



On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 03:46,  <jbowler at acm.org> wrote:
> 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>
>
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