On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Suggestions sent by John Frankish are correct. I'm rebuilding now (without >> chapter 5 bison) to confirm and went ahead and did m4 and zlib while I'm >> at it. Unfortunately, zlib is on github now. This breaks jhalfs as is. I >> was thinking about just grabbing from github an putting on anduin, but the >> webpage says that releases are pending, so maybe tarballs will be posted >> at some point. Won't hurt to hold for a day or two. >> >> Pierre, any quick thoughts about how to handle github links in jhalfs >> should this become more than one package? My first thought was to use >> <ulink></ulink> syntax, but I don't know how much trouble that is, and I >> don't really like that it renders without the actual URL. Maybe not even a >> problem. >> > > The change in zlib is going to cause us a problem. At a minimum, we are > going to need to add cmake to Chapter 5 like we do for check and dejagnu > and tcl. The BLFS version has some recommended dependencies that we may > not need for zlib. > > As far as I can tell, there is still a normal Makefile there. I haven't tested it though. Almost none of the platforms that zlib supports (nintendods, msdos, palm, etc.) support CMake. > I am a bit uncertain why the currency scripts identified zlib 1.2.9. The > script fails now, perhaps due to a change in the website (changed > yesterday). > > Hopefully the normal zlib-version package will still end up on zlib.net > so it wouldn't make for a major change for jhalfs. At a minimum, we can > host a copy on anduin if that doe not occur. > > -- Bruce > > For a short period of time, zlib was available here: http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.9.tar.gz However, it does not appear that that is the case anymore. It seems to have been removed, giving a 404 error when trying to download it. hpg in IRC gave DJ and I that link in #lfs. There isn't a zlib IRC channel for me to message either.
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