Re: inflateInit?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-10T20:12:34Z

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 03:23:35PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > } I'm more interested in fixing this the right way, as mine are
> > } automated builds.
> >
> > But you control the Makefile for them, right?
>
> No. The build cleans out any non-cvs-pristine sources and checks out
> the latest, then runs configure, make, etc. If it's not in CVS it's
> not going to make it into my builds. If I added it to CVS (assuming I
> had permission to do so), then any system missing libz would break.
>
> Besides, "you should hack your Makefiles" is not a suitable solution
> to this kind of problem. I'm not the only one trying to build them.

GDB is safe from this particular error, because it already uses zlib.
I think the only thing we can do is add equivalent autoconf tests for
zlib to other things which link to BFD but do not use libtool.
Mostly, that means the sim.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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