[LLVMdev] proposal to avoid zlib dependency.

Wed Sep 17 05:27:18 PDT 2014

Yes, this is incredibly annoying, so please avoid that. However I noticed that the current solution using CMake is broken, as I cannot enter my own ZLIB_ROOT, since no proper find_package is used.

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-----Original Message-----
From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Joerg Sonnenberger
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:56
To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] proposal to avoid zlib dependency.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:27:42PM +0300, Yaron Keren wrote:
> Large software libraries like OpenCV (under 3rdparty directory) do 
> include copies of zlib and friends and build it, for that reasons. The 
> source code is just half a megabyte and I think the license is 
> compatible. We could do the same with zlib or  miniz.

>From a packager's perspective, library bundling is one of the most obnoxious issues around. It creates all kind of fun whenever a security issue is found or you have to fix the same portability issue in 100 different copies (*cough* gtest *cough*)

Joerg
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