Thursday, June 24, 2021

Re: Why 16 year old zlib 1.2.3 in OpenBSD 6.9 released May 2021 please?

Dave Voutila <dave@sisu.io> wrote:

> Theo de Raadt writes:
>
> >> I think the easiest path here is to incorporate the new upstream into a
> >> port, unless someone is familiar with zlib and can cherrypick out the
> >> commit(s) that resolve the issue. (I didn't find zlib in ports already.)
> >
> > That is completely impossible. It must be in base. There are 3 copies
> > in base -- userland, kernel, and bootblocks. They must be kept in sync.
>
> Not saying to replace what's in base, but have a different version in
> ports available for ports. I was thinking along the lines of egcc or
> eopenssl in that the port co-exists with base and ports that need them
> need tweaking to use them.

You've got to be kidding. In what world does it help to require -I and
-l lines all over the place, or else everything breaks.

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