Matt Dowle writes:
> Hi, > > Is it intentional or is there any good reason that OpenBSD 6.9 released May > 2021 uses a 16 year old version of zlib (v1.2.3; July 2005)? The latest > version v1.2.11 (Jan 2017) is 4 years old. > > Background here: https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/5049 Had a chat with Matt off-list and took a very terse look at zlib's current status w.r.t. building just on amd64 -current. I think the easiest path here is to incorporate the new upstream into a port, unless someone is familiar with zlib and can cherrypick out the commit(s) that resolve the issue. (I didn't find zlib in ports already.) To be honest, the extend of my effort was: 1. clone zlib master branch from https://github.com/madler/zlib 2. try building with clang on amd64 -current...which fails. 3. try building with GCC 8.4 from ports...which "just works" (didn't even need gmake). To be clear: I didn't test if this actually fixed any issues. Then any ports that need the newer zlib and can't use the one in base can use the port. For folks that maintain ports...does this sound feasible or am I dreaming? (Assuming someone writes and maintains the port.) -dv
