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On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse <kris.universe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R.
>>
>> However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through
>> 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes.
>>
>> Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7?
>
> I don't have a 9.1-RELEASE system nearby, but I think zlib 1.2.7 _should_
> already be there...  Are you sure it's still an old version?

On my machine:

# uname -r
9.1-RELEASE

[It's actually -p1 but I've not bothered replacing the kernel as the 
problems were in user space.]

# grep 'define ZLIB_VERSION' /usr/src/lib/libz/zlib.h
#define ZLIB_VERSION "1.2.7"