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Re: PATCH: Compress debug sections for Linux/x86 by default
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning at dell dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:14:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Compress debug sections for Linux/x86 by default
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> >> Sorry I didn't realize that we only put zlib in gcc tree, not in
> >> binutils+gdb tree.
> >> Will copy it over from gcc tree work?
> >
> > I think it would. But distro vendors might want to have an option
> > to be able to build with the system zlib.
>
> That is why --with-system-zlib is here.
At first sight, and at the technical level, this seem to provide
the tools needed to support builds with zlib.
--
Joel