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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,        Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>, GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
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Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

>   Right - this decision has been made.  We are not going to include
> zlib the in the binutils sources.
>
>   Thanks for suggesting the idea and working on the patch, but in the
> end it was just not a path we wanted to go down.

I think the next decision is whether to require the host system to have
zlib, much as gcc requires the host system to have gmp, mpfr, and mpc.

Ian