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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:03:59 -0500
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On 24/11/2011 7:07 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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.)
That's weird... why does NLS have anything to do with zip-compressed 
debug info? Or do they both use zlib and somebody just forgot to update 
the configure script?

Ryan


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