At 9:56 Uhr -0700 17.07.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 08:53 AM, Max Horn wrote: >> >>> >>>Btw, which version/package/libraries/headers should be used to >>>port a fink package. The one packaged for fink or the one included >>>with MacOSX. For example zlib - there is a fink package and a >>>version in MacOSX - which one to use??? >> >>For zlib, the OS doesn't provide headers, so you have no choice. >>The same for libpcap and some others. As to link to which lib: >>usually not interfering there at all is the right thing, i.e. let >>the package do the pick - usually that will be the Fink version of >>the lib, but in e.g. the case of zlib they will link against the >>systems version of zlib. >> > >It doesn't? Sure, its a version behind, but i thought the fink >policy was NOT to depend on fink zlib at all because it is not >needed and just there for backward compatibility for old packages.
I am not sure what you are refering to, Ben. Nor do I understand what exactly you want to say, but let me restate what I meant in my previous post: zlib binaries are part of OS X 10.1 and later. However, header files are not (check out /usr/include yourself). Hence Fink has to provide header files. We also do provide the lib for backward compatibility (as in 10.0, there was no zlib in the system), however note that there is no /sw/lib/libz.dylib, hence applications will use the headers from Fink but the library from /usr/lib. Hope that clarifies this, if not, feel free to ask again :-) Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
