[Freeciv-Dev] Re: patch: zlib support (PR#366)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mallatt wrote:

> This simply doesn't compile on my machine!  My zlib.h doesn't say anything
> about a function called gzgets().  I've probably got too old a version of
> zlib.h (1.0.4).  This points out that ./configure should be smarter about
> versions.

That aspect is probably solvable by (in patched configure.in)
replacing
    AC_CHECK_LIB(z, inflate, , 
with:
    AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzgets, , 

(Agree with rest of post.)

-- David