> On 21 Jan 2015, at 08:47, Joel Brobecker <brobec...@adacore.com> wrote: > > Thank you! :)
What is the rational for having --with-zlib but --with-libz-prefix (ie zlib vs libz) ? Looks not very consistent. Tristan. > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:45:48PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This patch enhances config/zlib.m4 to introduce an extra option >> --with-libz-prefix which allows us to provide the location of >> the zlib library we want to use during the build. >> >> config/ChangeLog: >> >> * zlib.m4 (AM_ZLIB): Add --with-libz-prefix option support. >> >> I didn't see any file in the GCC project that uses this macro, >> so for the GCC repository, the change to zlib.m4 is it. But >> I am also attaching to this email a copy of the patch that >> will be applied to the binutils-gdb.git repository, with all >> configury using this macro being re-generated - mostly for info, >> also as a heads-up to both binutils and GDB. >> >> This was tested by regenerating all autoconf/automake files in >> the binutils-gdb project, and rebuilding GDB, using the following >> combinations: >> >> --with-zlib (system zlib used) >> --with-libz-prefix=/zlib/prefix (specific zlib linked in) >> --with-zlib --with-libz-prefix=/zlib/prefix (specific zlib linked in) >> >> --without-zlib (zlib support turned off) >> --without-zlib --with-zlib-prefix (zlib support turned off) >> >> --with-zlib (no system zlib available, configure fails with expected error) >> --with-zlib --with-libz-prefix=/invalid/zlib/prefix >> (no system zlib, configure fails with same error)
