The following reply was made to PR pkg/32623; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32623 (apache2 pkgsrc vs system zlib)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:51:48 +0000

 On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:51:14AM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
 > I wasn't sure whether the problem is in the zlib package, or in apache2.
 > Apache2 is using a private header from zlib, which seemed questionable.
 
 My concern is that multiple packages uses that file. So solving this
 in the "zlib" package seems to be the better idea.
 
 > An empty zutil.h would only cause problems later.
 
 Will it really? "apache2" compiles fine on systems without "zutil.h".
 So it can apparently find whatever it needs in "zlib.h".
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/