On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:07 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jerry Quinn <jlqu...@optonline.net> writes: > > > Hi. I started looking at what it would take to convert zlib to build > > with c++. > > The zlib library in gcc is actually a copy of upstream sources, so I > don't think it would be a good idea to make this change. We should stay > as close to the upstream source as possible.
I figured this was probably the case, hence asking before I did too much work :-) It does mean that we will always have to have c++ and c available to bootstrap. Was one of the goals to remove the need for a host C compiler? Meanwhile, I'm working on libdecnumber... Jerry
