ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of zlib 1.2.8 uploaded.

[Juan Manuel Guerrero]

This is a port of zlib 1.2.8 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


zlib 1.2.8 is a general purpose data compression/decompression library
as used in gzip. All the code is thread safe.


DJGPP specific changes.
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The only DJGPP specific change is that the vsnprintf and snprintf
functions
from DJGPP's repository are provided. Apart of this, only the usual
configu-
ration files have been added. They are located in the /djgpp directory.

The source package is now distributed configured for both DJGPP 2.03 and
DJGPP 2.04. In the top srcdir there is a "_build.203" directory and a
"_build.204" directory.

To be able to build this port you may need to have LFN support.

Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.


Here is an extract of the home page showing the user visible changes from
the last port (zlib 1.2.7) to this one:

Version 1.2.8 fixes a very rare bug in decompression. All users are
encouraged to upgrade immediately. Version 1.2.8 also has these
improvements:

Add new inflateGetDictionary() function

Fix bug where gzopen() immediately followed by gzclose()
would write an empty file instead of an empty gzip stream.

Fix bug in gzclose() when gzwrite() runs out of memory

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The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and
consists
of the two packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and
mirrors
as (time stamp 2013-05-13):

zlib 1.2.8 headers, libs and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/zlib128b.zip

zlib 1.2.8 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/zlib128s.zip


The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of
djdev204 beta library. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and
mirrors as (time stamp 2013-05-13):

zlib 1.2.8 headers, libs and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/zlib128b.zip


Send zlib specific bug reports to <zl...@gzip.org>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <dj...@delorie.com>.


Enjoy.

Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan.g...@gmx.de>