On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > I've looked through the sources for zip 3.0 and > unzip 6.0 and my initial impressions appear to be > borne out. They use a weird custom configure script > in concert with Makefile to find the system bzip2 > library on MacOS X without providing an easy way > to redirect the the location of bzip2. We would > have to hack up their configure script to cause > it to look in %p/include. It also seems to want > to use the static libbzip2 in cases other than > darwin (which we don't have in our bzip2 package). > The only other alternative would be to have > the zip and unzip package download the bzip2 > sources in the build directory and use a locally > built copy of libbzip2.a. None of these solutions > really seem worth the effort since it is entirely > unproven that using the system bzip2 will cause > us problems.
Martin has already explained one reason. And I explained a second earlier. The problem isn't so much "using system" as "using BCon". dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
