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Re: [PATCH] Disable all target libraries if not building gcc
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:43:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable all target libraries if not building gcc
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am working on SHF_COMPRESSED support:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.sheader.html
>> >>
>> >> I will import zlib from GCC source tree into binutils-gdb tree. But zlib
>> >> failed to build as a target library in binutils-gdb. There is no need to
>> >> build target libraries if not building gcc. OK for master?
>> >
>> > This is definitely wrong. newlib / libgloss is a target library that
>> > certainly makes sense to build separately from GCC, and the toplevel
>> > configure / build code should be identical in all three repositories (GCC,
>> > binutils-gdb, newlib-cygwin).
>>
>> We need to work out something to avoid building target libraries
>> in binutils.
>
> I suggest not building zlib as a target library unless libgcj is also
> being built as a target library, given that there should be no need to
> built it as a target library in isolation.
>
The logic is there. But somehow it doesn't work for binutils.
I will take another look.
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H.J.