[Gcl-devel] zlib dependency

2009-02-18 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! The issue here is that the preferred method of using bfd is to absorb the library statically into libgcl.a, and there seems to be no autoconf macros which can discern whether the static lib available requires the libz or not. Maybe a version check. This method is preferred because u

[Gcl-devel] Re: binutils induced libz dependency

2009-02-18 Thread Jerry James
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! It also appears that using newer binutils requires a > dynamic link dependency against libz. I suppose there is no way > around this. (?) Ugh, yes, I hit this. On Fedora 10 (but not Fedora 9 or earlier), /usr/lib64/libbfd.so is

[Gcl-devel] Re: autoconf build tie dependency?

2009-02-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! Should we take this opportunity to remove configure and > similarly generated files from cvs head? Keeping generated configure in CVS (head or branches) has the benefit of not requiring to have some exact set of Autotools, still

[Gcl-devel] autoconf build tie dependency?

2009-02-18 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Should we take this opportunity to remove configure and similarly generated files from cvs head? Take care, -- Camm Maguirec...@maguirefamily.org == "The earth is but one co

[Gcl-devel] binutils induced libz dependency

2009-02-18 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! It also appears that using newer binutils requires a dynamic link dependency against libz. I suppose there is no way around this. (?) Take care, Jerry James writes: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! > > First, let me thank you again s