Description of problem:

The RPM installed is 1.2.8

$ rpm -q mingw32-zlib
mingw32-zlib-1.2.8-10.fc30.noarch

The pkg-config file says it is 1.2.5 though:

$ rpm -ql mingw32-zlib | grep pkgconfig
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc

$ cat /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc
prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
exec_prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
libdir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
includedir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include

Name: zlib
Description: zlib compression library
Version: 1.2.5

Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}


This means apps requiring zlib > 1.2.5 fail to build despite having new enough zlib.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mingw32-zlib-1.2.8-10.fc30.noarch