[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:19:52AM -0400, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> Since we know that /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 is the good version, I'd go so far
> as to remove (or rename, to be safe) both /usr/lib/libz.a and
> /usr/local/X11R6/lib/lib.z. You don't need the /usr/lib/libz.a unless you
> want to create statically linked versions of executables.

I'd be inclined to remove only "/usr/local/X11R6/lib/libz.a", as
"/usr/lib/libz.a" is presumably 1.1.3.

I'm talking with one of the XFree86 developers about another issue; I'll
ask him whom we should complain to about this (the Open Group X releases
should, at minimum, get a later version of libz, and, arguably, they
should use their own libz *ONLY* on platforms that don't already have
it, and arguably shouldn't install it at all, even on platforms that
don't have libz, unless it's used by some X *libraries* that get
installed).