From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14994 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2010 19:54:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 14974 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Oct 2010 19:54:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from newsmtp5.atmel.com (HELO sjogate2.atmel.com) (204.2.163.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:54:11 +0000 Received: from csomb01.corp.atmel.com ([10.95.30.150]) by sjogate2.atmel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o9VJpD2q025380; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: <258DDD1F44B6ED4AAFD4370847CF58D50D9CAE11@csomb01.corp.atmel.com> In-Reply-To: References: From: "Weddington, Eric" To: "Ian Lance Taylor" , "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: "H.J. Lu" , "Binutils" , "GCC Development" , "GDB" Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00137.txt.bz2 =20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@google.com]=20 > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:42 PM > To: Frank Ch. Eigler > Cc: H.J. Lu; Binutils; GCC Development; GDB > Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity >=20 > fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: >=20 > > "H.J. Lu" writes: > > > >> [...] By default, the in-tree zlib is used. If you configure > >> binutis using --with-system-zlib, system zlib will be used. [...] > > > > Can you summarize what modern platforms lack a system zlib, and what > > justifies using the proposed in-tree copy by default? >=20 > This is a good point. We need zlib in the gcc repository because we > build it for the target, but this issue does not arise in the src > repository. So this becomes a question for the binutils=20 > maintainers: do > the binutils want to be self-contained, or do they want to follow the > path of gcc and require additional libraries to be installed before a > build can succeed? Typically, building for host=3Dmingw runs into all sorts of non-standard st= uff. I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt that there is a system zlib = on that platform. For gcc dependencies, it just so happens that gmp, mpfr, = and mpc build just fine for mingw. Eric Weddington