On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Mark wrote:

> I tried to install something that depended upon zlib today. It failed
> because it needed a more up to date version. I thought this was odd, since
> the pkgsrc tree is very good about getting dependancies for you. Anywho, I
> cd'd to the zlib dir, and got this:
>
> make update
> ===> zlib-1.1.4nb1 is not available for NetBSD-1.5.2-i386
>
> What gives? If it is not available, why is it in the tree? Why are other
> programs in the tree if they depend on it?
>
> I assume this is just some sort of build issue. I have updated my tree,
> btw.

1) zlib is part of the base system, and in the linker's default path
(/usr/lib/libz.so).

2) Nothing should depend on zlib. What package depends on zlib?

Frederick