linking rsync-2.5.0 to libz.so

Phil Howard phil-rsync at ipal.net
Sun Dec 2 16:10:22 EST 2001


On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:10:13PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:

| On  1 Dec 2001, Phil Howard <phil-rsync at ipal.net> wrote:
| > There does not seem to be an option in configure to get rsync 2.5.0
| > to link libz as a shared library.  Is there any way to do this?
| 
| rsync uses a modified version of libz, so it can't be statically
| linked.  See zlib/README.rsync

Any other suggestions for reducing the size?  It's gone beyond 500K
already, and I'm trying to get this thing into a floppy rescue system.

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