Tim Peters wrote: > That's very peculiar. Python has its own copy of the zlib code now, > under Modules/zlib/. That's version 1.2.3. > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html > > inflateCopy() is exported by Modules/zlib/inflate.c. I wonder why the > last gcc line above has "-lz" in it?
By convention, the Unix build doesn't use the included zlib. Unix users typically insist on using the system libraries when they are available, so nobody has even contributed a build procedure to use the included zlib optionally. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
