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On 23/11/2011 16:59, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 23/11/2011 11:47 AM, Surrounder wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> A cygcheck on 'ld' shows cyggcc_s-1.dll is pulled in as a result of a
>>> dependency on cygintl-8.dll.  I don't see a dependency on cygz.dll but
>>> perhaps another tool from the package pulls that one in.
>> I found out that the needed dll´s depend on the .\configure I do, is
>> there a
>> way to find out what options were used makeing binutils last time out
>> of the
>> binaries?
>> I tried searching a list where I can maybe find info about what cygwin
>> dll
>> is used for what function in binutils.
> I suspect that --disable-nls would remove the dependency on libintl, but
> I don't know what would pull in libz.

  That'll probably be the support for zip-compressed debug info sections that
was added to the mainline sources around this time last year.  It can be
disabled by passing "--with-zlib=no" to configure, or apparently also as a
side-effect of "--disable-nls" (according to a quick reading of the configure
scripts, I haven't tested.)

    cheers,
      DaveK

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