rpms/git-core/devel .cvsignore, 1.10, 1.11 git-core.spec, 1.9, 1.10 sources, 1.10, 1.11
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Nov 1 15:38:58 UTC 2005
Chris Wright wrote:
> It builds fine, and has internal macros to handle zlib-devel < 1.2.
> It's runtime that fails (apparently, I haven't recreated this myself,
> it was reported by someone running older distro). But git-core uses
> zlib's *Bound functions which seem to have been introduced in the
> .so w/out bumping any library version (between zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.2).
> So RPM creates implicit requirement on libz.so.1, which is satisified on
> machine that has either zlib 1.1 or zlib 1.2. However will fail during
> runtime with the former. So it seems that zlib >= 1.2 is best way to
> handle that. What do you think?
Anyone installing/using binary git from devel/rawhide on older systems
is in a world of hurt anyway. IMO, you needn't worry yourself trying to
work around that.
-- Rex
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