From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: pkg-config zlib check in 3c13bc
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:11:06 +0900
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X=C4=ABc=C3=B2 <xico@atelo.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:46:00AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
>> > int main(void)
>> > {
>> >     return(ZLIB_VERNUM >=3D 0x1252);
>> > }
>>=20
>> OK, that sounds like it could work.  Ideally, somebody on FreeBSD could
>> check...
>>=20
>> d
>
> Such check will work on FreeBSD, and would be great!
>

Great. Now somebody just needs to make it.=20

> As a side note, is there any rationale for the hand-made configure? Not
> that I am a big fan of autoconf/cmake/whatever either...

Carl Worth had a lot of (negative) experience with autoconf when he
started the project, which motivated him to roll his own.  Personally I
don't really think any of the alternatives are convincingly better than
autoconf. Of course it's one of those very subjective things.

d