Re: Java and zlib

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 16:11 19.09.00, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>Due to the following change
>
>   2000-09-02  Anthony Green  <green@redhat.com>
>
>         * jcf-io.c: Include zlib.h.
>         (open_in_zip): Read compressed class file archives.
>
>GCC fails to build on several of my "minimal" boxes:
>
>   ../stage1/xgcc -B../stage1/ 
> -B/sw/test/gcc/SunOS/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/bin/ -c  -DIN_GCC  -DSVR4  -O2 
> -g -O2 -W -Wall  -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes  -Wno-long-long  -W -Wall    -I. -I.. 
> -I/sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java -I/sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/.. 
> -I/sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/../config 
> -I/sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/../../include 
> -I/sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/../../zlib /sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/jcf-io.c
>   /sw/test/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/jcf-io.c:33:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
>
>I am aware that there has been a bit of discussion on whether to include
>zlib in the tree, but I believe that the current situation is definitely
>undesirable.
>
>Problem #1: zlib as a required package is not mentioned anywhere in
>our install documentation.
>
>Problem #2: If this is a required package, its existence should be
>verified at configure time, instead of aborting the bootstrap after
>it's already half through.
>
>(Or should zlib be checked for during configure and only be used if
>it is present? If so, still the documentation needs to mention that.)

Maybe you forgot to run ./contrib/gcc_update with the -dP option? zlib _is_ 
part of the tree now and lives in the toplevel.

Franz.