On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi Herb, > > On 21/10/2011, at 6:47 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: > >>> If TexLive had been around in 2002 and was statically linking to zlib, >>> it would have been affected too. TeX does not link against zlib but >>> LaTeX and XeTeX do. >>> ... >> >> Howdy, > >> Also, you say ``TeX does not link against zlib but LaTeX and XeTeX do'' and >> I don't understand that since LaTeX is simply a macro package that sits on >> top of TeX and isn't linked to anything like zlib as far as I know. XeTeX is >> an engine but I don't know what it's linked to. > > The binary called 'latex' is actually a (hard or soft) link to the > underlying binary named 'pdftex'. > This is what is statically linked to 'zlib'. > > It is a different binary to 'xetex', so his statements > make perfect sense, from this (very pragmatic) point of view. > > But yes, I had to think about it a bit, before being confident > about what was being said. >
Howdy, So its the binary, pdflatex, that is linked to zlib. That makes perfect sense. Ok. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
