When cross-compiling GDB for PPC, there's a prerequisite "-lz" for psim
that results in a build failure. With such prerequisite, GNU Make will
try to search the library from build machine's /usr/lib which is wrong.
On 64-bit Linux build machines the compilation will fail because of this.
URL: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12202