From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128054 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2015 12:33:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 128003 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2015 12:33:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-ob0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f170.google.com) (209.85.214.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:33:42 +0000 Received: by obdfc2 with SMTP id fc2so121672440obd.3; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:33:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.80.103 with SMTP id q7mr37559728obx.18.1427114020577; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.134.102 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:33:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150319112336.GA4884@adacore.com> References: <20150314193105.GB5954@adacore.com> <20150316232444.GB3435@adacore.com> <20150319112336.GA4884@adacore.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFC: Import zlib from GCC tree From: "H.J. Lu" To: Joel Brobecker , Alan Modra Cc: GDB , Tristan Gingold , Nick Clifton , Paul Koning , "Joseph S. Myers" , Thomas Schwinge , Binutils Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00713.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> >> I created users/hjl/zlib branch. It imported zlib into binutils-gdb tree >> >> and replaced --with-zlib with --with-system-zlib. Any feedbacks? >> > >> > I'm not sure. Wouldn't some people want to configure --without-zlib? >> >> GCC doesn't support --without-zlib nor should binutils. >> zlib is needed to implement SHF_COMPRESSED. > > Generally speaking, I really don't know what to think of that. > Some people might decide that this is a feature they do not want, > in which case having support for it is just extra bloat. But, > on the other hand, zlib is probably sufficiently small that > it would not matter much. Speaking for myself, at least, I can > live with that. Just not sure about others. > > Given the lack of feedback so far, I am thinking no one is strenuously > objecting. I propose we give people another week to express their > opinion, after which we can move forward. You'll need the approval > of the binutils maintainers as well, I suspect. I will import zlib from GCC on March 26 if there is no objection. Thanks. -- H.J.