[PATCH] Add libz to dumper.exe link [was Re: Re: speclib vs. -lc trouble.]

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 13 20:00:00 GMT 2009


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:31:13PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:34:04PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> I think you can get by with just adding -lz to the ALL_LDFLAGS line and
>>>> removing the other stuff.  The tests for libintl and libbfd are
>>>> supposed to just detect if the appropriate directories are available.
>>>> There isn't likely going to be a libz two levels above cygwin's source
>>>> directory so I don't see any reason to specfically check for it.
>>> I thought that might happen in a combined tree build with /src and /gcc
>>> together?
>> 
>> That wasn't the intent of the current checks in the makefile.  They were
>> just to detect newer versions of libbfd.a or libintl.a.  Even libintl.a
>> isn't really necessary IMO.  It's not likely that is going to be under
>> active development and different from what should be installed in /lib.
>
>  Ah, OK, so just like this then:

Yup.  Thanks.

Please apply.

cgf



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