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Subject: Re: binutils prerequisites (recent zlib version - what else?)
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Steffen Dettmer
<steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ohh silly me, sorry, I sent my reply to the wrong list :-(
>
> I'm trying again:
>
>>> I noticed that gcc has an option `--with-system-zlib', so in
>>> total I would need --with-system-zlib=3Dno, but if I understand
>>> correctly this is not supported by binutil/bfd.
>>> Did I understand correctly?
>>
>> Unrecognized --with options are ignored.
>
> Yes, I know this from autoconf.
>
>> The difference in the options
>> is because for gcc, zlib is not optional when building libjava. =A0For t=
he
>> binutils zlib is always optional.
>
> so gcc can be built against its own zlib which is included in gcc source
> but binutils cannot?
> I though it could be possible to force to use the own zlib, which seems
> to be impossible.
> anyway, I don't need Java ATM.
>

See:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-10/msg00539.html

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H.J.