From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28641 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2010 23:56:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 28630 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2010 23:56:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.160.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:55:59 +0000 Received: by pwi1 with SMTP id 1so2436169pwi.0 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.199.12 with SMTP id w12mr1929764wff.360.1288655757386; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([115.187.252.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x18sm9719780wfa.11.2010.11.01.16.55.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 71142170C1EB; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:25:50 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:56:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Nick Clifton Cc: Binutils , GCC Development , GDB Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity Message-ID: <20101101235550.GF26513@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Clifton , Binutils , GCC Development , GDB References: <4CCEF548.4000502@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CCEF548.4000502@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 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