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

Mark Wielaard
2015-02-18T21:54:47Z

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 12:53 -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > it? There are various tools that don't handle the .zdebug format like
> > valgrind. And at least elfutils has trouble with it for ET_REL files,
> > like kernel modules, because relocations don't actually apply anymore to
> > the section data as is (but only after the decompression).
>
> Now it becomes a monthly topic:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-01/msg00089.html

Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. Alan Modra makes some good points in
that thread why it is not a good change:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-01/msg00135.html
Do people agree with that? And/Or can the change be reverted for now
till there is agreement it is a desirable default?

Thanks,

Mark