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Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:19:09 -0500
Subject: Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
References: <AANLkTikYSxV51_452Wuqox6mQ3_QwNjzNkBgV=NzKk4f__16997.3676828251$1288473196$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com> <4CCFC979.1060605@redhat.com> <mcrpqunx3lb.fsf@google.com>

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 09:22:24 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 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 require the host system to have
> zlib, much as gcc requires the host system to have gmp, mpfr, and mpc.

since the functionality in binutils is minor and optional, i dont think 
requiring zlib makes sense
-mike

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References:
- Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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