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Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:29:06 -0600
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib
References: <20091030182157.GS24532@adacore.com> <20091030212114.GA8158@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20091030213045.GB8029@adacore.com>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> 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.

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

FWIW, GCC has --with-system-zlib.
It would be nice not to wind up with multiple ways to configure this
same thing.

Tom

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

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