From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7941 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2010 18:42:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 7917 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Oct 2010 18:42:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:42:38 +0000 Received: from wpaz37.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz37.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.101]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o9VIgZIG022721 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:42:35 -0700 Received: from pva18 (pva18.prod.google.com [10.241.209.18]) by wpaz37.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o9VIgXWv017414 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:42:34 -0700 Received: by pva18 with SMTP id 18so365550pva.3 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.53.2 with SMTP id b2mr3694818wfa.61.1288550553313; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com (adsl-71-133-8-30.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.133.8.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e36sm7202145wfj.2.2010.10.31.11.42.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:42:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Cc: "H.J. Lu" , Binutils , GCC Development , GDB Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity References: Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Frank Ch. Eigler's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:37:44 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00543.txt.bz2 fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > "H.J. Lu" 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? Ian