>> I noticed that gcc has an option `--with-system-zlib', so in >> total I would need --with-system-zlib=no, but if I understand >> correctly this is not supported by binutil/bfd. >> Did I understand correctly? > > Unrecognized --with options are ignored. Yes, I know this from autoconf. > The difference in the options > is because for gcc, zlib is not optional when building libjava. For the > binutils zlib is always optional. so gcc can be built against its own zlib which is included in gcc source but binutils cannot? I though it could be possible to force to use the own zlib, which seems to be impossible. anyway, I don't need Java ATM. Thanks for your quick replies and help, Steffen
