[hobbit] snapshot 2008-11-14 zlib version is too old

[Lars Ebeling]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Flemming" <martin.flemming at desy.de>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: [hobbit] snapshot 2008-11-14 zlib version is too old


>
> Hi !
>
> Have i got something forgotten or not observed ..
>
> With the new snapshot's i can't compile it under Scientific Linux 4 
> (RHEL4) ... with an old snapshot from April it works ...
>
> checking for zlib ...
> Found ZLIB include files in /usr/include
> Found ZLIB libraries in /usr/lib
> zlib version 1.2.1.2
> Your zlib version is too old, requires version 1.2.3 or later
> ZLIB version too old, must be at least version 1.2.x
>
>
>
> ... i remember a  problem from September
>
>
> Subject :Latest stable snapshot?
>
>
> And the last answer was from Henry
>
>> In /usr/include/zlib.h add the following to the #include's:
>>
>> # define ZLIB_VER_MAJOR 1
>> # define ZLIB_VER_MINOR 2
>>
>
>>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:48:08 +0000 (UTC)
>>From: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk>
>>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>Newsgroups: lists.hobbit
>>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Latest stable snapshot?
>>
>>The ZLIB_VER_MAJOR/MINOR macros apparently are a Linux- or 
>>Debian-addition.
>>I've updated the test-zlib.c module to use the standard ZLIB_VERNUM macro
>>instead. So it should work now with a standard zlib installation.
>

> .. with Scientific Linux 5 (RHEL5) it works ...
>
> .. is it my personal problem ?
>
> cheers,
>
>From the beginning ther were no tests on versionnumbers on zlib, only 
existance.
Then for some time, in september, somebody introduced some testing on 
ZLIB_VER_MAJOR/MINOR  which aren't standard in zlib.h
Now ZLIB_VERNUM (mentioned above) tests on 1.2.3 in test_zlib.c

I don't know which version really is needed.

Regards
Lars