RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@google.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:42 PM
> To: Frank Ch. Eigler
> Cc: H.J. Lu; Binutils; GCC Development; GDB
> Subject: 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?

Typically, building for host=mingw runs into all sorts of non-standard stuff. I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt that there is a system zlib on that platform. For gcc dependencies, it just so happens that gmp, mpfr, and mpc build just fine for mingw.

Eric Weddington