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Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (was --disable-zlib)

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:30:45 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (was --disable-zlib)
References: <20091030182157.GS24532@adacore.com> <20091030212114.GA8158@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>

> It should be more systematic to use AC_ARG_WITH than AC_ARG_ENABLE as it is
> about a dependency on external software as described in the autoconf manual.

Makes sense, indeed.  I wanted to avoid --with-zlib because I wanted
to avoid the confusion with a possible --with-zlib-prefix.

> And I would prefer to be also able to force the requirement - it makes the
> vendor packaging sanity checking of prerequisited packages easier.

Agreed.

I will post a new set of patches later.

-- 
Joel

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib
  - From: Tom Tromey

References:
- [RFA] Add support for --disable-zlib
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (was --disable-zlib)
  - From: Jan Kratochvil

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