Re: ZLib (double free) bug

From: Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:46:46 +0000
Subject: Re: ZLib (double free) bug
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On 2002-03-12 10:50:43, Andrey Hristov wrote: > What about implementing in build process check for the version of > the zlib library. If <=1.1.3 to give error message that >=1.1.4 is > needed. 1.1.4 is at : I already thought about that, but there are people or even whole linux distributions (e.g. Debian), who are patching their zlib libraries without using the whole 1.1.4, so their zlib version stays at 1.1.3, but without the bug. So we would to really test for this double free error, we can't rely on the zlib version, if we don't want to break php build for this platforms. But I think using this double free bug would be a little bit of overkill for a configure script ... Stefan -- Stefan Röhrich stefan@roehri.ch, sr@linux.de http://www.roehri.ch/~sr/

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