From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 6 23:28:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6496D1BC for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:28:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkeramidas@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f44.google.com (mail-ee0-f44.google.com [74.125.83.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E419BFF8 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l10so6127057eei.17 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:27:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=/hffEQSmozhjSsSZfDQyIw0AQsTiexVtiwh5T5y2TsQ=; b=nCovdv8oLvNSnx7I0ec5E8Rcip5/uNADdWCnBUMPvyvey7oY9+MMJvyYn5rxhYDsQD sXHZEABEnwIjSh7ihKhGfbDCjvNsGixASH+S9j1EdQIPpAzZijth+98pJkrskGOyiLaQ YbBgFuyc0u/tjaoPJQjo2/sN4qlTYTCSgy6BCH3jVz9bQGCptqT18aAT6G9uT3rvqaIs cOISdCy4kIgwdnd+Cn2RVD2TZ6+Xs1b35mcaqC/doXsAX9YqfIzmgWqNCYihw8AkfmHe f76OMyQO07IBbWOMXBL/FZ1DPjGqdQ32yb2CY6z1CkVFejllsWOEjMKeXMX11DGbA/yH /kBg== X-Received: by 10.14.207.73 with SMTP id m49mr87232562eeo.24.1362612479550; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch. [217.162.217.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d47sm44831101eem.9.2013.03.06.15.27.57 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:27:58 -0800 (PST) Sender: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:27:52 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Arthur Chance Subject: Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind? Message-ID: <20130306232750.GA25598@saturn> References: <20130305161158.GB9376@saturn> <5136F918.70105@qeng-ho.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5136F918.70105@qeng-ho.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, KrisUniverse X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:28:01 -0000 On 2013-03-06 08:06, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse 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" That's what I'd expect. Thanks :)