[erlang-questions] Using system's zlib

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

We might do some changes in R12B to make it easier to use
the system zlib.

/Bjorn

Christian Faulhammer <opfer@REDACTED> writes:

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> Gaspar Chilingarov <nm@REDACTED>:
> 
> > Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > > Gaspar Chilingarov <nm@REDACTED>:
> > >> AFAIK no, because erlang's zlib is heavily patched :)
> > >  Doh.  I don't really like that...is there any chance that one day
> > > erlang can use vanilla zlib?  How heavy are the patches?  Could zlib
> > > upstream integrate them?
> > at current moment erlang uses zlib v. 1.2.3, which is the latest 
> > according to zlib's official site.
> 
>  Good to know.
>  
> > About patches -- it took me about 1-2 day to merge in new version of 
> > zlib to erlang sources :)
> 
>  Still, are those patches very special or could upstream provide your
> needed features?
>  
> > In other hand -- what's the reason to include system zlib, if now
> > it's shipped with latest version of zlib?
> 
>  As I am maintainer of erlang in Gentoo Linux, I have a bug open asking
> for using system's zlib, but that is not important to you. :)
>  Take it that there is a security flaw in zlib.  zlib in Gentoo is
> updated, stabled and done.  Nobody thinks of erlang (or any other
> package shipping a custom version of zlib instead of linking against
> the system one), so we have a possibly vulnerable version in the tree.
> Which is baaaaad.  Backporting patches from vanilla zlib to erlang is
> just needless work in my eyes, and I have to be aware of these fixes
> or even of an included library (there may be more I don't know about).
> 
> V-Li
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB