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Subject: Re: lulatex problems after update of zlib
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:55:51 +0200
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Ken Brown via Cygwin writes:
> On 8/21/2023 11:02 AM, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
>> (although in this case maybe i got spooked by the change
>> from 1.2.x to 1.3)
>
> It looks like that's exactly what happened.  The version check
> compares the first 4 characters of the version string.

Almost exactly the same problem happened 13 years ago or so.  Instead of
heeding the comment right in the file that only the first character of
the version string should be examined (or else compare ZLIB_VERNUM),
they chose to shorten the comparison from 5 to 4 characters…


Regards,
Achim.
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