libxml2 does use zlib. I recall seeing a bug report about an API change in zlib that affected libxml2.
libxml2 will use zlib when downloading external resources through http if the content is gzip by the server. I don't recall if zlib is mandatory or not when building libxml2. Better check with the debian packagers. Emmanuel Rodriguez On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 23:38, Jonathan Rockway <j...@jrock.us> wrote: > * On Fri, Jan 28 2011, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: >> I am not sure where I should report that - it looks like a quite >> generic bug. > > I think this is an XML::LibXML bug. If -lxml2 needs -lz, then the > Debian package should have figured that out. That leads me to believe > that it doesn't actually need zlib, and this is a cargo-cult bug. But I > haven't tested this yet. (I will soon.) > > Regards, > Jonathan Rockway > > -- > print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$" >
