From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28708 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2004 13:53:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28699 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2004 13:53:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao02.cox.net) (68.1.17.243) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2004 13:53:41 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.64.121]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040208135341.WKIL19763.lakemtao02.cox.net@white>; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:53:41 -0500 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Apg0q-0000M7-00; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:53:40 -0500 Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:53:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit] Simplify subdir config Message-ID: <20040208035340.GA1352@white> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4025BABE.3060304@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4025BABE.3060304@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00174.txt.bz2 > This simplfies the handling of subdirectories: > - puts "main.o" in libgdb.a > again ./gdb and ./tui always link against it Doesn't this seem kind of strange? I've never heard of a library linking in the main. Kind of makes it not general purpose. Why even link in a library? Bob Rossi