On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:13:44PM +0000, 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 making it > build there, then it will be down to us to fix it. Or > else abandon compression support on that host.
This would mean we need to keep machinery to conditionally compile in compressed debug support, removal of said support being HJ's stated reason for importing zlib. I'm against importing zlib into binutils, and I think we should keep support of compressed debug sections conditional, to avoid potential bootstrap problems or circular dependencies. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
