zlib 1.2.3 -> 1.2.5

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/11/2011 01:31, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 10:23 Tue 29 Nov     , Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> snip...
>
>> When we talked about the zlib version here (I think back in February) we
>> talked about having the option to use the system's zip library where
>> appropriate. Have you given this any thought recently?
>>
>> -Alan.
> We have changes for this (and other libraries) in IcedTea that we'd like
> to upstream.  I'll look at posting a webrev soon.
That would be great. If I remember correctly then the IcedTea patches 
remove the zlib code completely but we can't do that of course because 
of Windows. So I think a USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB as you suggest would be best.

-Alan.