On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> I've noticed that the --manual compression feature in recent versions of
> curl isn't being used by most binary curl distributions I've seen. This
> seems to be due to the default uncompressed hugehelp.c file shipped in the
> tarball causing the compression to not take place by default.
>
> Attached is a patch (against 7.10.8) that causes make to attempt to compress
> the manual at least once and only if that fails to use the uncompressed
> version.

I have an idea of a different approach: What about doing a plain old #ifdef
HAVE_LIBZ [code] #else [code] #endif ? (when making a compressed version)

I think the main problem is that people don't rebuild the hugehelp.c but
simply builds with the provided one...

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