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Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (take 2)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:55:30 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (take 2)
- References: <20091102232319.GJ4531@adacore.com> <20091119211326.GB10089@adacore.com> <4B05CF04.6020502@gnu.org>
> As long as it is not used by GCC configury, I don't think people mind
> here. The only suggestion I have is to have [default=auto] somewhere in
> the help string.
OK - I will add it.
> BTW, zlib is always distributed with GCC so we always include zlib
> support (and instead of --with-zlib, there is a --with-system-zlib flag
> that does what you expect). Maybe you could do the same for binutils
> and gdb? In that case, centralizing the test in AM_ZLIB is certainly
> desirable, and gcc may pick up the macro later or parts of it.
Yes, Tom Tromey also mentioned that. Right now, I am more interested
in being able to build without zlib (we find its usefulness in GDB to be
marginal for us), but maybe the day will come when GDB/binutils must be
built with zlib, in which case I'll adjust zlib.m4 accordingly.
Thank you!
--
Joel