[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH] Reduce zlib requirement from 1.2.8 to 1.2.3.

[Emil Velikov]

On 9 June 2017 at 16:00, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Emil,
>
>> Did you test the upstream versions or the distribution ones which tend
>> to be patched?
>
>
> Both.  I build 17.1.1 against the system supplied zlib-devel packages for
> 1.2.3 in EL6 and 1.2.7 on EL7.  I then swapped out the zlib version at
> runtime via LD_LIBRARY_PATH with ones build from the release tarballs from
> zlib.net
>
>
>>
>> What tests did you use?
>
>
> I ran the piglit shader profile with --quick addded to the tests since I
> figured that would exercise the shader cache, which would in turn use zlib.
>
Thanks Chuck. I've added the above in the commit message and pushed the commit.
Huge thanks for going through and testing this.

-Emil