[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.7.1

[Juergen Daubert]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:17:36PM -0700, Mark Adler wrote:
> zlibbers,
> 
> Please take a look at zlib 1.2.7.1, which you can download from here:

[...]

> Please try this out and report any issues.

found the following issue while building firefox version 20 and version
19.0.2 from sources, works with zlib 1.2.7 without issues:


make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/firefox/src/mozilla-release/netwerk/cache'

c++ -o nsCacheEntryDescriptor.o -c -I../../dist/stl_wrappers
-I../../dist/system_wrappers -include ../../config/gcc_hidden.h
-DMOZ_GLUE_IN_PROGRAM -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM
-DEXPORT_XPT_API -DEXPORT_XPTC_API -D_IMPL_NS_GFX -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET
-DIMPL_XREAPI -DIMPL_NS_NET -DIMPL_THEBES  -DSTATIC_EXPORTABLE_JS_API
-DNO_NSPR_10_SUPPORT -DIMPL_NS_NET -I../../netwerk/cache/../base/src
-I../../netwerk/cache -I. -I../../dist/include  -I/usr/include/nspr
-I/usr/include/nss      -fPIC  -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Woverloaded-virtual -Werror=return-type -Wtype-limits -Wempty-body
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-overlength-strings -Wno-invalid-offsetof
-Wno-variadic-macros -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe
-fno-exceptions -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-rtti -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections -fno-exceptions -std=gnu++0x -pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG
-DTRIMMED -g -O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe -mno-avx -fomit-frame-pointer
-DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ../../mozilla-config.h -MD -MF
.deps/nsCacheEntryDescriptor.o.pp
/tmp/firefox/src/mozilla-release/netwerk/cache/nsCacheEntryDescriptor.cpp

/tmp/firefox/src/mozilla-release/netwerk/cache/nsCacheEntryDescriptor.cpp: In member function 'virtual nsresult nsCacheEntryDescriptor::nsDecompressInputStreamWrapper::Read(char*, uint32_t, uint32_t*)':

/tmp/firefox/src/mozilla-release/netwerk/cache/nsCacheEntryDescriptor.cpp:959:43: error: invalid conversion from 'const Bytef* {aka const unsigned char*}' to 'Bytef* {aka unsigned char*}' [-fpermissive]

make[4]: *** [nsCacheEntryDescriptor.o] Error 1


This is on a almost up-to-date Linux system with gcc 4.7.2. 



Greetings
Juergen