Re: [patch] update zlib to the 1.2.10 release.

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> On 12.01.2017 22:17, Jeff Law wrote:
> > On 01/05/2017 07:45 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> These are the changes updating zlib from 1.2.8 to 1.2.10. It is only used when
> >> building without a system zlib.  The new release includes fixes for security
> >> issues CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843.
> >>
> >> Checked with a build with disabled system-zlib. Ok for the trunk?
> > Were there any changes that we needed to carry forward or any changes you needed
> > to make to the upstream sources?
> 
> I backed out the changes to the configure* and Makefile* changes (and
> only these), which are completely different to zlib upstream. There
> are no additions/deletions to zlib source files, so these build
> changes still work with the updated zlib.

Can you tell us what these changes are? Currently nightly source
packaging is broken while configuring zlib.

Here is what I am seeing:

    $ cd /path/to/gdb/sources
    $ ./configure --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu
    $ make configure-host configure-target
    [...]
    checking for strerror... yes
    checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
    configure: updating cache ./config.cache
    configure: creating ./config.status
    config.status: creating Makefile
    config.status: executing default-1 commands
    ./config.status: line 1191: ./../../config-ml.in: No such file or directory
    Makefile:10001: recipe for target 'configure-zlib' failed
    make: *** [configure-zlib] Error 1

Thanks,
-- 
Joel