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Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity


fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:

> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> 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?

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 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?

Ian


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