On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:45:26 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > [...] > > As you can see, it uses libz (or zlib) but dynamically, probably through > some library dependency. > > So I have no idea why they think it is linked statically. I searched the > sources, but found > no direct dependency on paszlib or zlib, but there is an indirect > dependency, because the paszlib > units are used. I think the jpeg and png support are the cause of this. > > If you add the -s option to the compiler command line, in the link.res file > that is then > generated when compiling, you can see that the paszlib unit is used. > > Maybe they look for a function name (as suggested by Micha). In that case > you should make > clear that zlib is not linked statically, but that paszlib simply contains > a function with > the same name.
Now I got the confirmation from a developer who is developing Lintian that this is a false positive. (A bug in Lintian) FPC uses a translated header which matches the regex Lintian uses to detect embedded ZLibs. Curious that this has been overriden for over four years and noone ever asked if it could be a bug in the Debian tool instead of FPC. Thnks for your clearification! _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
