zziplib-0.13.58, minor build system cleanup

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@16892 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Build/source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.58/TODO b/Build/source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.58/TODO
index 2bc5edfd6ea..1a408e4a12d 100644
--- a/Build/source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.58/TODO
+++ b/Build/source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.58/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+SHORTTERM
+- handle international filenames more gracefully (unicode API?)
+- most is multithreaded ... but zzip_dir_open (Thorsten Schöning)
+- rboerdijk@ does also report errors on overlapping reads, another
+   one pointed to the usage of seek_set that may cause the problems
+
+WISHLIST
 
 - Check the CRC value at the end of read... and add more error codes.
 
@@ -14,12 +21,14 @@
   multiple pages for the website, it does already look acceptable.
   It should still get better of course - kinda newbie friendly *g*
 
+- Boris Schäling likes to open a zzip archive in memory.
+
 KNOWN PROBLEMS
 
 The win32 compilers need each a different config.h derivate that
 matches both the headers shipped with the compiler and installed
 with updates of the SDK. There is no autoconfigure on win32 as
-that - unless you install some unix tools along. 
+that - unless you install some unix tools along.
 
 The sparc-sun-solaris2.* will utter warnings for "char subscript"
 which is caused by isdigit() from ctype.h - this will NOT FIX as
@@ -27,9 +36,15 @@ it is only in the example source code and we want to keep those
 lean and mean to make them easy to adopt by developers.
 
 The hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 did show spurious problems of making
-shared libraries - this may well fix with an update of the 
+shared libraries - this may well fix with an update of the
 libtool package, the libtool 1.4 is dated 2001/04/24
 
+There are reports of misaligned access to some zip fields that
+I would guess to be on little-endian non-x86 platforms. The current
+bytewise access of multibyte fields is targetted towards the
+bigendian unix machines. The fix would need to go to fetch.h but
+so far no response came about as that one could test a solution.
+
 There are spurious reports of users on win32 platforms that tell
 of some problems with a specific zip file they have but it was
 not possible so far to recreate an environment abroad to show
@@ -38,6 +53,13 @@ instability out of DLL hell, or if there is a bug hiding somewhere.
 Please send all those zip files to the maintainer, perhaps it
 can help to find the real cause (I doubt it is in zziplib, but..)
 
+Since lately the xml docbook tools have hardened the checks on the
+input xml that is used for manpage generation. Interestingly the
+resulting manpages are still okay but one should try to fixaway the
+warnings as may be later the result would lead to garbage output
+due more changes in the tools. Needs to change the xml generator
+used in zzip (a python script).
+
 TESTED PLATFORMS
 sparc-sun-solaris2.6/gcc2.95.3
 sparc-sun-solaris2.8/gcc2.95.3
@@ -52,3 +74,34 @@ i386-ms-win32/msvc6
 i386-ms-win32/msvc7
 i386-ms-win32/mingw+msys
 ... and probably a lot of others not known to the maintainer.
+
+Additionally, note that Sourceforge has discontinued their compilefarm
+server laboratory. That makes it unlikely that proper support for
+crossplatform functionality can be provided. Expect a compile problem
+here or there - the code however should be prepared to get around any
+problems easily. Send patches! (especially Linux distributions makers
+are usually not sending their patches to upstream maintainers).
+
+Note: the latest cross platform tests are done indirectly by using
+the build.opensuse.org rpm packaging where one can run "make check"
+just before doing the "make install" of the compiled library.
+
+
+SUSE BUILDSERVER INFO
+
+I: A function overflows or underflows an array access. This could be a real error,
+but occasionaly this condition is also misdetected due to loop unrolling or strange pointer
+handling. So this is warning only, please review.
+W: zziplib arraysubscript ../../zzip/memdisk.c:114
+
+I: File is compiled without RPM_OPT_FLAGS
+W: zziplib no-rpm-opt-flags <cmdline>:../../SDL/SDL_rwops_zzcat.c, ../../SDL/SDL_rwops_zzip.c
+
+I: Program is likely to break with new gcc. Try -fno-strict-aliasing.
+W: zziplib strict-aliasing-punning ../../zzip/file.c:275
+W: zziplib strict-aliasing-punning ../../zzip/fseeko.c:99, 126, 147, 158, 182, 281, 288, 301, 360, 539, 543, 546, 563
+W: zziplib strict-aliasing-punning ../../zzip/memdisk.c:181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 247, 455, 456
+W: zziplib strict-aliasing-punning ../../zzip/mmapped.c:277, 289, 311, 314, 339, 340, 393, 397, 410, 438, 440, 443, 444, 549, 551, 552, 558, 559, 561
+W: zziplib strict-aliasing-punning ../../zzip/zip.c:318, 320, 321, 322, 339, 341, 342, 343, 484, 485, 486, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501
+E: zziplib 64bit-portability-issue ../../zzip/memdisk.c:112
+System halted.