Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> 
> DragonFly provides an up-to-date version of libz in the base system (1.2.3)
> along with the header files and such.
> 
> Reading zlib's builtin.mk I get the idea that it should be able to deal with
> the file and detect whether I have that.
> 
> Am I right that it should auto-handle or should I set something manually?

Yes, it should auto-handle it if possible.  As can be seen, 
zlib/builtin.mk tries to figure out the version of zlib by parsing the 
ZLIB_VERSION symbol in the zlib.h header.  Is that not working for you?

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>