[Gcl-devel] Re: binutils induced libz dependency

[Jerry James]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> 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 a linker script that pulls in
/usr/lib64/libbfd.a (ha, you thought you were getting a shared
library!) and libz.  So for my development platform of choice, the
right thing to do is choose to link against a dynamic system libbfd.

This is not universally the case across distributions, so I guess
configure will have to check for one of these libbfds and pull in libz
as necessary.
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Jerry James
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