Re: ping #3: [RFA] Add --with-libz-prefix option in config/zlib.m4

Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-18T20:42:02Z

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 09:32:21PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Can you elaborate?
>
> That doesn't seem like a smart default. And why is is Linux/x86 only?
> Shouldn't that be something that is done explicitly by a distro
> configuring binutils after making sure it actually is beneficial
> (debuginfo is often compressed in a different way, on the package/file
> level or with dwz). And after making sure all tools actually work with

Yeah, dwz doesn't handle those, I think debugedit used by rpm doesn't
either. When stripping into files, it would seem to be smarter to just
compress the separate debug files rather than compressing individual
sections anyway.

Jakub