Re: binutils prerequisites (recent zlib version - what else?)

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com> writes:

> So for now the additional configure option `--with-zlib=no'
> should avoid (or workaround?) my issue.

By the way, this can also be written as --without-zlib.

> I assume that when zlib is installed, then at least some "recent"
> version must be installed, because there is no
> `--with-zlib=internal' or alike, is this correct?

Yes.

> I noticed that gcc has an option `--with-system-zlib', so in
> total I would need --with-system-zlib=no, but if I understand
> correctly this is not supported by binutil/bfd.
> Did I understand correctly?

Unrecognized --with options are ignored.  The difference in the options
is because for gcc, zlib is not optional when building libjava.  For the
binutils zlib is always optional.

Ian