On 10/31/2010 08:12 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
I assume that the reason we do that for intl is because it has complex interactions with the rest of the C library, so using the wrong intl library will cause confusing behaviour when the LC_ environment variables are set. That case does not arise for zlib. I think that if we do ship zlib with the binutils, we might as well always build it rather than using complex configure tests.
I think it's also for historical reasons. Nowadays most GNU utilities are not shipping with a copy intl anymore.
Paolo
