On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, H.J. Lu wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, H.J. Lu wrote: >> > >> >> I am working on SHF_COMPRESSED support: >> >> >> >> http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.sheader.html >> >> >> >> I will import zlib from GCC source tree into binutils-gdb tree. But zlib >> >> failed to build as a target library in binutils-gdb. There is no need to >> >> build target libraries if not building gcc. OK for master? >> > >> > This is definitely wrong. newlib / libgloss is a target library that >> > certainly makes sense to build separately from GCC, and the toplevel >> > configure / build code should be identical in all three repositories (GCC, >> > binutils-gdb, newlib-cygwin). >> >> We need to work out something to avoid building target libraries >> in binutils. > > I suggest not building zlib as a target library unless libgcj is also > being built as a target library, given that there should be no need to > built it as a target library in isolation. >
The logic is there. But somehow it doesn't work for binutils. I will take another look. -- H.J.
