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From: "Weddington, Eric" <Eric.Weddington@atmel.com>
To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	"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: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <258DDD1F44B6ED4AAFD4370847CF58D50D9CAE11@csomb01.corp.atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcr1v762oh6.fsf@google.com>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@google.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:42 PM
> To: Frank Ch. Eigler
> Cc: H.J. Lu; Binutils; GCC Development; GDB
> Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
> 
> fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:
> 
> > "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> [...]  By default, the in-tree zlib is used.  If you configure
> >> binutis using --with-system-zlib, system zlib will be used.  [...]
> >
> > Can you summarize what modern platforms lack a system zlib, and what
> > justifies using the proposed in-tree copy by default?
> 
> This is a good point.  We need zlib in the gcc repository because we
> build it for the target, but this issue does not arise in the src
> repository.  So this becomes a question for the binutils 
> maintainers: do
> the binutils want to be self-contained, or do they want to follow the
> path of gcc and require additional libraries to be installed before a
> build can succeed?

Typically, building for host=mingw runs into all sorts of non-standard stuff. I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt that there is a system zlib on that platform. For gcc dependencies, it just so happens that gmp, mpfr, and mpc build just fine for mingw.

Eric Weddington

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-31 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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
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 [this message]
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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