inflateInit?

[Craig Silverstein]

} I'm more interested in fixing this the right way, as mine are
} automated builds.

But you control the Makefile for them, right?  Every place where
you're specifying libbfd.a right now, you can just change it to
   libbfd.a -lz
(or "libbfd.a /usr/lib/libz.a", or whatever the appropriate location
for you is).

} Is there a --disable-compression option for bfd/gdb (gdb calls it
} too) that we can use, or perhaps make the default until we fix this?

Hmm, not at the moment, but you're right it may be a good idea to add
it.

craig