From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28868 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2010 20:21:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 28853 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2010 20:21:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:21:35 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4671313D; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428458E7DF; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C50914E.1030408@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:21:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090609) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python References: <4C4F7A39.9030606@vmware.com> <20100728172017.GK13267@adacore.com> <4C50688B.1050105@vmware.com> <20100728173706.GO13267@adacore.com> <4C506FF0.3010405@vmware.com> <20100728180845.GT13267@adacore.com> <4C50728A.4090708@vmware.com> <20100728181926.GU13267@adacore.com> <4C507583.4010801@vmware.com> <20100728182734.GV13267@adacore.com> <4C508BE3.4000705@vmware.com> <4C508CD3.4070309@vmware.com> <4C508DE6.8020807@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <4C508DE6.8020807@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2010-07/txt/msg00521.txt.bz2 Michael Snyder wrote: > Michael Snyder wrote: >> Michael Snyder wrote: >>> Joel Brobecker wrote: >>>>> Are we talking about the same patch? >>>> Yep! >>> I see -- I need to apply both changes to the branch. >>> >>> Well, that didn't help, and neither did applying the one change to HEAD. >>> >>> I tried configuring both with and without --enable-shared. >>> >>> In all cases, it tried to link statically. >>> >>> I'm thinking, if gdb links against python statically, that will >>> certainly bloat the gdb executable... >>> >> Hmmm, yes, unstripped gdb-7.2 is about 6 meg bigger than 7.1. > > And even stripped, gdb is now 32 percent bigger. So... aren't there some distro-related concerns about linking gdb against a static system library?