f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@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? Ian
