Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add --with-system-zlib in bfd

[Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com>]

On 03/31/2015 01:16 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Antoine Tremblay
> <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com> wrote:
>>> Also doing ./configure in binutils/zlib I get :
>>>
>>> config.status: creating Makefile
>>> config.status: executing default-1 commands
>>> ./config.status: line 1190: ./../../config-ml.in: No such file or
>>> directory
>>>
>>> So configure does not exit cleanly...ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I did a bit more research on this issue and I get this if I build gdb from
>> it's source directory
>>
>> in binutils-gdb
>> ./configure
>> make
>>
>> make fails with : while in zlib directory
>>
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating Makefile
>> config.status: executing default-1 commands
>> ./config.status: line 1190: ./../../config-ml.in: No such file or directory
>>
>> However if I build out of tree in like binutils-gdb/build for example I do
>> not get this issue.
>>
>> Could this be related to 92c695a14f6a5a24b177e89624c13d7dbcbf9e1f ?
>>
>> Subject: [PATCH 09/76] A zlib to tarball
>>
>> I see this snippet there
>>
>> -    ./configure --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu
>> +    ./configure --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu \
>> +       --with-target-subdir=. \
>> +       --disable-multilib
>>
>> With these options I get around the configure problem only to fail in gas
>> with :
>> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/x/src/binutils-gdb/gas'
>> /bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Werror -I./../zlib -g -O2  -static-libstdc++
>> -static-libgcc  -o as-new app.o as.o atof-generic.o compress-debug.o cond.o
>> depend.o dwarf2dbg.o dw2gencfi.o ecoff.o ehopt.o expr.o flonum-copy.o
>> flonum-konst.o flonum-mult.o frags.o hash.o input-file.o input-scrub.o
>> listing.o literal.o macro.o messages.o output-file.o read.o remap.o sb.o
>> stabs.o subsegs.o symbols.o write.o tc-i386.o obj-elf.o atof-ieee.o
>> ../opcodes/libopcodes.la ../bfd/libbfd.la ../libiberty/libiberty.a   -ldl
>> libtool: link: gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
>> -Wshadow -Werror -I./../zlib -g -O2 -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc -o
>> as-new app.o as.o atof-generic.o compress-debug.o cond.o depend.o
>> dwarf2dbg.o dw2gencfi.o ecoff.o ehopt.o expr.o flonum-copy.o flonum-konst.o
>> flonum-mult.o frags.o hash.o input-file.o input-scrub.o listing.o literal.o
>> macro.o messages.o output-file.o read.o remap.o sb.o stabs.o subsegs.o
>> symbols.o write.o tc-i386.o obj-elf.o atof-ieee.o
>> ../opcodes/.libs/libopcodes.a ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a
>> -L/home/x/src/binutils-gdb/zlib -lz ../libiberty/libiberty.a -ldl
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
>>
>>
>> This is with head as :  711a72d3d6f8cd3c3f408e718ff19aa4bfd2144e
>>
>> Did you try to compile directly in the src tree ?
>>
>
> Yes, I did.  You need to add --disable-multilib,  and maybe
> --with-target-subdir=.
>

As I said if I add  --disable-multilib, -with-target-subdir=.

I get into the gas missing zlib error above ?

Also I don't think it's a good idea that gdb would require options to 
compile in it's source tree ?

Is there a good reason for this ?