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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,	GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101235550.GF26513@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCEF548.4000502@redhat.com>

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:13:44PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   * We have to make sure that zlib will build on all of the
>     hosts that we care about.  Should the situation arise
>     where the zlib does not build on a particular host, and
>     the zlib maintainers are not interested in making it
>     build there, then it will be down to us to fix it.  Or
>     else abandon compression support on that host.

This would mean we need to keep machinery to conditionally compile
in compressed debug support, removal of said support being HJ's stated
reason for importing zlib.

I'm against importing zlib into binutils, and I think we should keep
support of compressed debug sections conditional, to avoid potential
bootstrap problems or circular dependencies.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikYSxV51_452Wuqox6mQ3_QwNjzNkBgV=NzKk4f__16997.3676828251$1288473196$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-30 21:37 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-10-30 22:28   ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-31 18:42   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-10-31 18:58     ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-31 19:13       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-11-01 17:13         ` Nick Clifton
2010-11-01 17:19           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-11-01 23:56           ` Alan Modra [this message]
2010-11-02  1:03             ` Christopher Faylor
2010-11-02  8:19               ` Nick Clifton
2010-11-02 13:22                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-11-09 14:19                   ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-02 10:46         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-31 19:54     ` Weddington, Eric
2010-10-30 21:12 H.J. Lu
2010-10-30 22:19 ` John Reiser
2010-11-01 17:21   ` Nick Clifton
2010-11-01 17:23     ` Nathan Froyd

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