On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
- LuaTeX will refuse to run after every minor upgrade of zlib (e.g. if upgrading from zlib-1.2.6 to zlib-1.2.7) and needs to be rebuild.
Right, .. now that you mention it, we have a patch like that in Debian since long:
I know. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310487#c13, and following comments there.
So, would it be possible to remove the check for the zlib version? See patch included below.
Not good, why not check only the first three items, that should be fine. In Debian we do since long:
As I said before, the version is already checked by the dynamic linker (via soname) and by zlib's deflateInit* and inflateInit* functions. There's no need to check it for a third time (and in a manner that is different from that in zlib itself). Ulrich