From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17993 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2007 13:52:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 17985 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2007 13:52:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:52:22 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60928982AD; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2453A981F3; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IghPg-0005wM-71; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:52:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Joel Brobecker , pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows DLL support update (a bit slimmer version) Message-ID: <20071013135220.GB22505@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Joel Brobecker , pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <46C8BEC4.3030807@portugalmail.pt> <20070903174605.GK12440@caradoc.them.org> <20071012213136.GG8721@adacore.com> <20071012215251.GA6302@caradoc.them.org> <20071012220715.GC4038@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:05:12PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > DLL support is pretty important in my opinion, and some users might > > be surprised to see it disappear silently because their system does > > not have libexpat installed. > > Yes. How about adding a warning message to GDB stating that lack of > libexpat causes the related feature to not work, when the user tries > to invoke a command that's affected? Yes, this is done: warning (_("Can not parse XML library list; XML support was disabled " "at compile time")); -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery