>A better solution might be to version the couple of interfaces in libz
>that use z_off_t.  There are only two, and the wrapper functions
>should be trivial, and that way there wouldn't be any pain for users
>of the shared libaries...  (actually, i think there could still be
>pain, if shared libs built to use libz used z_off_t in any of _their_
>public interfaces...)

	Sorry I'm not a shared library wizard.  Do you mean:
	- have "long" gzseek() as a wrapper,
	- have "off_t" gzseek_correct() as real function, and
	- leave definition of z_off_t to long?

itojun