Alex Arslan

What happens if you follow the steps as they're written in the source build fallback? Basically ``` curl -sLO https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz tar xzf zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz cd zlib-1.2.11 ./configure --prefix=. gmake ``` Could...

Does it produce libz.so?

Ah, `--enable-shared` is important. I'm actually surprised it worked for me without that when I wrote it. The fact that it needs `CC` and `CFLAGS` is a little weird though...

This is expected, since it's how BinaryProvider is designed to work. For some background, one problem you run into when using system libraries instead of building the libraries yourself is...

CodecXz likely just needs a new tag then, since XzBuilder has been updated to support FreeBSD: https://github.com/bicycle1885/XzBuilder/commit/82d8f6db15930f4be2fa598c92d86131b81ef8e3#diff-2567705d891d25120e6ea4ca97383113R34

> Arch Linux repos provide both Julia and Arpack We always recommend using official Julia binaries over ones provided by system package managers. That's mentioned in Julia's README.

BinDeps is effectively end-of-life; going forward, packages with binary dependencies should use BinaryBuilder and BinaryProvider.

It should also be noted that not all libraries support cross-compilation, which is what BinaryBuilder uses to build binary dependencies. One particularly notable example is HDF5, which at least for...

As of #329, we have an easy way to check whether the system uses glibc. What about something like ```diff --- a/src/dependencies.jl +++ b/src/dependencies.jl @@ -725,7 +725,11 @@ end if...

Bump @yuyichao, @tkelman, @staticfloat. Would be nice if someone could review this.