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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:46:00 -0000
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>,        Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,        Martin =?utf-8?B?TGnFoWth?= <mliska@suse.cz>,        GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] zstd as a compression algorithm for LTO
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 09:29:54PM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > 
> > At least allow it to be built as part of the normal build like GMP,
> > etc. are done.
> > And include it in downloading using contrib/download_prerequisites
> > like the libraries are done.
> 
> Anoying detail is that zstd builds with cmake, not autotools

It looks like it would be pretty trivial to integrate into a real build
system though.

OTOH, how well has this been tested, then?  On different platforms, etc.?


Segher