Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] fix build warnings with newer zlib

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:

> The gz* API from zlib takes a "gzFile", not a "gzFile*".  Older
> versions of zlib didn't trigger a warning due to how the funcs
> were written, but newer ones do.  So tweak the type (which in
> reality shouldn't change anything since it's a typedefed pointer)
> to work with old/new versions.

Then we should check, trough the configure script, that the zlib version
used supports this new type.  I don't think there are problems to force
the zlib version >= the last one supporting the new type, I am not
particularly worried about not supporting old versions of the libraries.

Thanks,
Giuseppe