RE: [PATCH] Move gdbserver to top level

Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-02-17T17:28:05Z

On Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Luis" == Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> writes:
>
> Luis> Should --disable-gdb also imply --disable-gdbserver? Or should we be
> Luis> able to build gdbserver without building gdb (sounds a bit more
> Luis> complex)?
>
> We should, it was historically supported and preserving this ability is
> one of the goals of the series.
>
> Thanks for the report. I missed a spot in configure.ac and I will be
> pushing a fix shortly.
>
> Tom

It used to be possible to build gdbserver by directly using its configure.
E.g.: path/to/gdbserver/configure, as shown here:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver

Is this not a use-case anymore?

Thanks.
-Baris

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