Should binutils source tree include zlib source?

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 19:48:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Binutils uses zlib. Should zlib source be included in binutils tree?
>>
>
>  Can't see any terribly good reason to.  It's widely available as a standard
> system library, we aren't in any need of forking it, and it would add to the
> binutils project's maintenance/support burden, wouldn't it?
>

Zlib source is included in gcc source tree. It is useful for
cross binutils.


-- 
H.J.



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