Re: static linking of gdb

Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-05T14:56:16Z

On 4/5/20 4:19 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com
>> From: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
>> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 15:48:09 +0200
>>
>> Can someone explain to me why gdbserver needs source highlight?
>
> It provides syntax highlighting of the source displayed by GDB.
>

Hmm,

from a pragmatic POV, may I ask, why we do not simply change the
default of

--with-static-standard-libraries --disable-source-highlight

I do not even miss a highlight in gdb and certainly not
in gdbserver, the software is just extremely good as is ;-)

... I just learned recently about backward step, wow ...

I mean the default should just work,
if someone wants some more highlight, then they should just
add --enable-source-highlight
and if that is necessary, do additionally
--without-static-standard-libraries

What do you think?

Bernd.