Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 09:22:24 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Nick Clifton writes: > > Right - this decision has been made. We are not going to include > > > > zlib the in the binutils sources. > > > > Thanks for suggesting the idea and working on the patch, but in the > > > > end it wa

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Nick Clifton writes: > Right - this decision has been made. We are not going to include > zlib the in the binutils sources. > > Thanks for suggesting the idea and working on the patch, but in the > end it was just not a path we wanted to go down. I think the next decision is whether to requ

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/31/2010 08:12 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: I assume that the reason we do that for intl is because it has complex interactions with the rest of the C library, so using the wrong intl library will cause confusing behaviour when the LC_ environment variables are set. That case does not arise

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-02 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi H.J. Right - this decision has been made. We are not going to include zlib the in the binutils sources. Thanks for suggesting the idea and working on the patch, but in the end it was just not a path we wanted to go down. Cheers Nick Clifton

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:25:50AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: >On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:13:44PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: >> * We have to make sure that zlib will build on all of the >> hosts that we care about. Should the situation arise >> where the zlib does not build on a particular

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-01 Thread Alan Modra
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:13:44PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: > * We have to make sure that zlib will build on all of the > hosts that we care about. Should the situation arise > where the zlib does not build on a particular host, and > the zlib maintainers are not interested in maki

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:13:44PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: > At the moment I feel that the pros outweigh the cons. What do other > people think ? I was asked not to include expat in GDB, which was a similar situation. I don't remember if this was an FSF issue; I know that the FSF, in general,

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-11-01 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Guys, >>> 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? As I see it the pros of having a copy of the zlib sources in t

RE: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-31 Thread Weddington, Eric
> -Original Message- > From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:i...@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 > > f...@redhat.com (

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"H.J. Lu" writes: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: >> >>> "H.J. Lu" writes: >>> [...]  By default, the in-tree zlib is used.  If you configure binutis using --with-system-zlib, system zlib will be used.  [...] >>

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-31 Thread H.J. Lu
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > >> "H.J. Lu" 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 m

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > "H.J. Lu" 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 p

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-30 Thread H.J. Lu
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > "H.J. Lu" 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 > justifi

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-30 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
"H.J. Lu" 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? - FChE

RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

2010-10-30 Thread H.J. Lu
Hi, Binutils can compress/decompress debug sections if zlib is available. I imported zlib from gcc source tree to binutils source tree. I changed binutils to use zlib unconditionally. By default, the in-tree zlib is used. If you configure binutis using --with-system-zlib, system zlib will be used.