A.54. Zlib

A.54.1.

A.54.2. Official Download Location

Zlib (1.1.4):
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

Zlib Vsnprintf Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch

A.54.3. Contents of Zlib

The Zlib package contains the libz library, which is used by some programs for its compression and uncompression functions.

Installed libraries: libz[a,so]

A.54.4.

A.54.5. Short description

libz* contains compression and uncompression functions used by some programs.

A.54.6.

A.54.7. Zlib Installation Dependencies

Zlib depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, Sed.