[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] configure: remove build-time check for gzip support in zlib

[softworkz .]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Ramiro Polla
> Sent: Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 03:33
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] configure: remove build-time check for
> gzip support in zlib
> 
> We currently test at build-time whether zlib supports decoding gzip.
> This is not needed for the build to succeed, since only the gzip
> command is necessary to perform compression at build-time.
> 
> Presumably this check will help the user by not enabling compression at
> build-time if their system won't be able to decompress at runtime.
> 
> But there are no guarantees that the system where the build is made is
> the same system where it will run. The build system could support gzip
> in zlib, but not the system at runtime, or the other way around.

Hi,

What about static builds? Doesn't the check test exactly the zlib lib
that will go into the binary?

sw