New tools and 4.6.99.3

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 13:32 +1100, Steven Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ive just started moving my project over to 4.6.99.3, and here is what I
> have to report:
> 
> I'm building the Bare BSP for a custom MPC862 target.

> pppd and zlib:
> 
> I have discovered that ZLib has crept its way inside the rtems source
> tree.  A first glance seems to indicate this is for the support of
> pppd. 
Nope, it is used by network support routines. So instead of having to
reimplement all the compression functions anew, we use libz.

>  Neither of which are useful for me.  I already use zlib 1.2.3 and
> my zlib is customized, so i cant have both of these.
Any particular reason for doing so?

Ralf