From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32651 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2009 16:53:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 32636 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2009 16:53:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:38 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B26E1018C; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD0D10148; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJ9FX-00073t-9g; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:53:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: dje@google.com, uweigand@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Per-type architecture (Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines) Message-ID: <20090623165335.GA26830@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , dje@google.com, uweigand@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20090622205935.GA5900@caradoc.them.org> <200906230041.n5N0fMYW019073@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <200906231642.n5NGg6S9014370@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906231642.n5NGg6S9014370@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) 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: 2009-06/txt/msg00615.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Some people think that a basic UNIX-like system should include the > tools to build and debug computer programs, at least those written in > C. So on OpenBSD (and most of the other BSD's) we ship gcc, binutils > and gdb as part of the base operating system. This means that if > these tools depend on certain libraries, we have to include those > libraries as well. There are a couple of issues here: Note that - because of this concern precisely - the XML library dependency is optional. It would have saved a lot of hassle if it weren't, but that's a choice we've already made and I think it was the right choice. Once the user says they do want to build in XML support, I don't think that which XML library they need to go build is particularly important. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery