binutils prerequisites (recent zlib version - what else?)

[kevin diggs]

Hi,

And thanks. I was wondering what zlib was used for. The jar usage
should have been obvious. Compressed debug stuff. Is that new? I tried
searching in the 4.3.2 gcc manual for compress and zlib. The only
thing that came up was -feliminate-dwarf2-dumps. What should I search
for?

kevin