Re: zlib autoconf question

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200
> From: Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> >> I hope there will be an explicit configure option to enable/disable
> >> zlib support, too?
> 
> > Is there a reason to have such an option? If -lz is present, I can't
> > really see why anybody would want Emacs to be built without it...
> 
> Emacs may be built one one host where the shared library is present,
> and the resulting binary then distributed to another host where it
> isn't.

The real solution to such problems is to probe for the availability of
the shared library at run time.