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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:45:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0STxXG_v8AfryRRyw=mAqAp7FoTxsJu+jtRO6E_TU6+ywA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iozapan0.fsf@gnu.org>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> The 2 fboundp tests return non-nil when Emacs was built with zlib
> support.  zlib-available-p can return nil on MS-Windows, when the zlib
> shared library is not available, even though Emacs was built with zlib
> support.  On platforms other than Windows, the fboundp tests and
> testing the return value of zlib-available-p are equivalent.

In other words, portable elisp code should really do

(and (fboundp 'zlib-available-p) (zlib-available-p))

to check for zlib support. Perhaps it would be worth to encapsulate
that check into (yet another) predicate...

   J



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1V8wyP-0003i5-8r@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-08-13  1:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13  2:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13  3:45     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2013-08-13  4:24       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-08-13  9:54       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 16:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:10           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 14:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 14:47       ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-13 16:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 16:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 18:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 18:55             ` Stefan Monnier

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