From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19518 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2011 16:28:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 19509 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2011 16:28:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:27:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2148C2BAFBE; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id G431AsaMQn2J; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA41E2BAF93; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C8EE145615; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:28:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: Jan Kratochvil , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC/ia64] link against libunwind rather than using dlopen Message-ID: <20110629162751.GD2407@adacore.com> References: <20110622153625.GA20676@adacore.com> <20110625184854.GA18713@host1.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2011-06/txt/msg00456.txt.bz2 > We could make this work if we truly wanted to. It just seems like a lot > of effort; and building gdb is not so very hard. I also think that this is unnecessary. The only reason for doing that is transportability. But in either case, it's easy to achieve, especially in the libunwind case where we only have to worry about a couple of SOs, by also copying the libraries. That's what we do when we distribute GDB with Python enabled. -- Joel