From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20482 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2015 11:23:42 -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 20463 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2015 11:23:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:23:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0757A1163BC; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7hE1njp8-+OY; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969EA1162F0; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3ED3340EAD; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:23:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: GDB , Tristan Gingold , Nick Clifton , Paul Koning , "Joseph S. Myers" , Thomas Schwinge , Binutils Subject: Re: RFC: Import zlib from GCC tree Message-ID: <20150319112336.GA4884@adacore.com> References: <20150314193105.GB5954@adacore.com> <20150316232444.GB3435@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00580.txt.bz2 > >> 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. -- Joel