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Re: [PATCH] Disable all target libraries if not building gcc


On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@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.

-- 
H.J.


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