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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22


Hi there,

>> > Alan:
>> >  I would luike that cygz.dll patch reversed you applied to CVS.
>> > I would prefer to stick with our own libz.dll, instead of
>> > a forked dll.
>> > 
>> I find that surprisingly odd that the cygwin folk have dumped this in
>> contrib.
>> 
>> I'll reverse it of course.
>
>It is not really main cygwin developer who forked it from master libz. 
>Therefore it is in contrib directory, THEREFORE I am opposed to linked
>any thing which is forked from master and dumped into contrib 
>directory.
>
>Thanks for reversing it.

IMHO your behaviour is contra-productive, since AFAIK all Cygwin DLLs will
have now a cyg prefix instead of lib. The binutils maintainer has applied
this path officially to the package, so the cygz.dll *is* the official
Cygwin version and there is no other around. This was done due to
incompatibilities with MS-DOS versions of this DLL named also libz.dll in
various non-Cygwin ports (and therefore is not a forked version). *If* the
server is a Cygwin app it *should* use cygz.dll.

You may have a look at the real long discussion on this topic searching the
Cygwin mailing list.

Don't ge me wrong, I don't wanna start any flame war. I just wanna prevent
that the Cygwin xfree package will start to become incompatible to the
standard Cygwin package - at least as far as I understand the topic.

Greetings,
Jörg


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