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Subject: RE: [BUG] Re: Git 2.35.0-rc0
Date:   Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:03:57 -0500
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On January 10, 2022 10:00 PM, Taylor Blau wrote:
> To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 09:57:57PM -0500, rsbecker@nexbridge.com
> wrote:
> > > If your system doesn't have a modern-ish zlib, you may try building
> > > with that knob, or upgrading your system's copy of zlib. And if
> > > NonStop doesn't have a modern zlib available at all, we should
> > > modify the NonStop section of config.mak.uname.
> >
> > There is no provision in reftable/block.c to avoid using uncompress2,
> > so the knob will not help. Our zlibc is not that recent (as in it does
> > not have uncompress2) and we cannot make the 2.35.0 timeframe to
> > upgrade it. The current zlib seems to require gcc and is very
> > difficult to port at this stage. This is a blocker situation.
> 
> NO_UNCOMPRESS2 does not avoid calling uncompress2, but instead compiles
> a copy-and-pasted implementation in compat/ so that the function is available.
> 
> Looking through it, I can't imagine that it wouldn't compile just fine even on
> NonStop.
> 
> Have you tried building with NO_UNCOMPRESS2?

I'm starting a build with that now. Will report back tomorrow.
--R