There is some confusion regarding this bug report so let me clear a few
things up.
Freepascal does not by default link dynamically against pascal code.
There has been some experimental suport in the compiler for a while but
I don't think anyone has ever seriously worked through the distro-level
implications. For dynamic linking to make sense there really needs to be
a commitment to ABI stability.
A simple pascal program does not use any C libaries (static or dynamic)
at all. The freepascal run time library makes system calls directly to
the kernel.
Freepascal programs that use C libaries can and do dynamically link
against those C libaries.
On the zlib issue. Freepascal ships (and afaict various pascal programs
use) paszlib which is a pascal translation of zlib. It would probablly
be good if there was an option to use the C zlib library instead as I
doubt that the pascal translation is getting much in the way of security
support.
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