On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 09:22:24 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> >   Right - this decision has been made.  We are not going to include
> > 
> > zlib the in the binutils sources.
> > 
> >   Thanks for suggesting the idea and working on the patch, but in the
> > 
> > end it was just not a path we wanted to go down.
> 
> I think the next decision is whether to require the host system to have
> zlib, much as gcc requires the host system to have gmp, mpfr, and mpc.

since the functionality in binutils is minor and optional, i dont think 
requiring zlib makes sense
-mike