From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 51582 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2017 22:57:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 51457 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2017 22:57:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=compression, H*i:sk:d80f972, H*f:sk:d80f972 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-vk0-f67.google.com Received: from mail-vk0-f67.google.com (HELO mail-vk0-f67.google.com) (209.85.213.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:57:21 +0000 Received: by mail-vk0-f67.google.com with SMTP id 23so12372970vkc.2; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:57:20 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=aTXx2WsnVbF5+PjbduiBILcekUbzSKxQM6J6KwTMizU=; b=dPybEO+D0Med4zZxJIhJDDKGKbbcwBSZwYyDiSitsDESa3A1ubbFt1WgzFf1mjtMcf 1BMsumko+4p9oxfzrZnNeC/fKEL9M2xlm9ZqWdmky4bsKHQSYJOKy38oc24EBmk80zbW SLH/2u81awa/XICUzfVOqvU9TVU4tPiTvbzReaes7S8T44eWCa9O42BTod8vhYyCLZ6+ dbt9/8S6mRjIlO2L3EgxVlfPSoNwLU8jVM0Relm/oMDHQgqyfgFfYal0ggLKgOPbeXep 6v8z2GvuaxglvGgGmRuh0DvY/tfTUzeTSGVM9OQkawxlgbr6bwHLA78dJ9oDVk6rNKS5 AidQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXL+4Zxi3B79wIlWMz5MKsI1TGSqRPwmsLi3S6DkkoTawgQlUA7/jGXPXkdKwnhbc2GcCfhHvqF3Hi2LBw== X-Received: by 10.31.149.15 with SMTP id x15mr12502169vkd.130.1485212239427; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:57:19 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.176.18.199 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:57:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <02ad1804-017b-3637-a532-aa6c7b8aa2a9@redhat.com> <5b68833c-cf12-d858-9636-d12c40236dcd@ubuntu.com> From: Iain Buclaw Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch] update zlib to the 1.2.10 release. To: Matthias Klose Cc: NightStrike , Jeff Law , GCC Patches , GDB Patches , binutils , Johannes Pfau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 On 22 January 2017 at 19:42, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 22.01.2017 19:12, NightStrike wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> NightStrike proposed to revert to the 1.2.8 release until zlib stabilizes again; >>> I'm open for that, but didn't want to stay with the 1.2.10 release. >> >> I don't recall making that proposal. I thought I just suggested that >> since modern zlib now supports having a separate build and source >> directory (at least according to the December changelog: "Allow >> building zlib outside of the source directory"), you should check to >> see if the gcc build system had any hacks to accomplish the same thing >> that could now be removed. > > sorry for wrongly citing you. Please could you make the removal of zlib a goal > for GCC 8? I may be a bit biased trying to keep the "ongoing" d/gdc merge alive > (libgphobos requiring a target zlib). > > Matthias > I'd certainly have no problem having zlib as external-only. The phobos library also has a dependency on curl in much the same way, but we don't bundle such in as a convenience library. But I'm sure I'm not the only user of zlib, doesn't the LTO frontend support compression? Iain.