Re: [Lynx-dev] [Patch] Lynx won't compile against zlib 1.2.5.1

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/17/2011 05:34 AM, Keith Bowes wrote:
> Je 2011-Sep-16 je 22:09, Nikos Chantziaras skribis:
> > Trying to build Lynx with zlib 1.2.5.1 results in build errors, due
> > to the 'ON' macro of zlib, which conflicts with the one in
> > LYUtils.h. Here's a bug report about it on Gentoo's tracker:
>
> Weird.  There's a 1.2.5.1?  The zlib website indicates the latest as
> 1.2.5.

It's a beta:

http://www.zlib.net/current/beta/zlib-1.2.5.1.tar.gz


> > A patch that fixes the problem by renaming Lynx's ON and OFF macros
> > to LON and LOFF:
> It would be nice if C had qualified identifiers, a la modern dialects of
> Pascal.

In any event, a generic identifier like ON in a header file of a library 
is kind of a brain damaged idea to begin with.