Re: svndiff1 and compressBound

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Daniel Berlin wrote:
> A configure test where we select either the zlib.h version or our
> version would be silly, because then, in the remote possibility it ever
> did change, your subversion would break depending on whether you had a
> new enough zlib around it could pull compressBound from or not.

Uhh, what?

That's not right: If all new versions of zlib supply compressBound, and
we have a fallback which is correct for the versions which do not, then
we should always be using the correct version.

This is exactly the kind of situation autoconf is meant for.

Max.
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Received on Sat Feb 25 11:32:13 2006