Hi Herb, On 21/10/2011, at 6:47 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>> If TexLive had been around in 2002 and was statically linking to zlib, >> it would have been affected too. TeX does not link against zlib but >> LaTeX and XeTeX do. >> ... > > Howdy, > Also, you say ``TeX does not link against zlib but LaTeX and XeTeX do'' and I > don't understand that since LaTeX is simply a macro package that sits on top > of TeX and isn't linked to anything like zlib as far as I know. XeTeX is an > engine but I don't know what it's linked to. The binary called 'latex' is actually a (hard or soft) link to the underlying binary named 'pdftex'. This is what is statically linked to 'zlib'. It is a different binary to 'xetex', so his statements make perfect sense, from this (very pragmatic) point of view. But yes, I had to think about it a bit, before being confident about what was being said. > > Good Luck, > > Herb Schulz > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) Cheers from Kerala. Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au Mathematics Department office: E7A-419 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex