[FFmpeg-devel] configure does not detect correct version of zlib

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:52:23AM +0000, robert hawkin wrote:
> 
> hi. 
> I have succesfully compiled ffmpeg-0.10 on a very old machine (kids bedroom for converting videos) 
> initially compilation failed whilst linking  flashsv.o which needs deflateBound. the machine had zlib 1.1.1, and deflateBound was introduced in zlib 1.2.0
>  updating zlib to 1.2.3 (which I had on the machine somewhere) sorted it.
> it's a bit picky, but "configure" is supposed to know these things.

true, its a bug.

please send us a patch that fixes configure, you are probably the only
who can test it easily anyway.

Also i strongly recommand that you upgrade zlib, there where some
exploitable bugs in it in the last few years ...

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