From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>, GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101102010249.GB19682@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101101235550.GF26513@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:25:50AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
>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.
FWIW, I agree. I think that having to keep zlib up-to-date wrt
potential security issues or other serious bugs is a burden that we
shouldn't take on. Shouldn't we be trying to use any system shared
libraries for these types of things specifically so that the vendor
can handle problems for us?
cgf
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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
2010-11-02 1:03 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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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