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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.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: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCFEBE0.1010605@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrk4ky18i6.fsf@google.com>

On 10/31/2010 08:12 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I assume that the reason we do that for intl is because it has complex
> interactions with the rest of the C library, so using the wrong intl
> library will cause confusing behaviour when the LC_ environment
> variables are set.  That case does not arise for zlib.  I think that if
> we do ship zlib with the binutils, we might as well always build it
> rather than using complex configure tests.

I think it's also for historical reasons.  Nowadays most GNU utilities 
are not shipping with a copy intl anymore.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02 10:46 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
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 [this message]
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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