[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30307 - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:04:31PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > - Slackware also
> > (http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-current/source/l/zlib/).
> 
> Their comment says:
> The issue stems from
> misuse of zlib by other libraries, but there's no other good place
> to put this fix.
> 
> From this, I think it is not a zlib problem. Zlib worked in nixpkgs for more
> than one year.

I think the cmake people may be using a GNU/Linux distribution that has a patch
like that applied, instead of following the zlib guidelines.

I'd prefer to push a patch to cmake, than get a broad zlib patch into
stdenv-updates. I'll take a look.