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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (take 2)
References: <20091102232319.GJ4531__1176.19579327783$1257204230$gmane$org@adacore.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20091102232319.GJ4531__1176.19579327783$1257204230$gmane$org@adacore.com> 	(Joel Brobecker's message of "Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:23:19 -0800")
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> Tom: I tried to think about how to integrate ourselves better with
Joel> GCC's configure option (--with-system-zlib), but I couldn't think
Joel> of anything nice.

Thanks for looking.

Joel> I think GCC should have implemented optional in-tree support the
Joel> way you did for iconv.

The situations aren't totally analogous.  zlib is always in the gcc
tree, and for gcj (and now I think, LTO), it is not an optional
dependency.

Tom