Re: [PATCH] Move gdbserver to top level

Luis Machado
2020-02-17T14:29:35Z

On 2/17/20 11:21 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, Luis Machado wrote:
>
>> Should --disable-gdb also imply --disable-gdbserver? Or should we be
>> able to build gdbserver without building gdb (sounds a bit more complex)?
>
> Nope, `--disable-gdb --enable-gdbserver' is typical for a cross-debug
> environment, where you want to configure and build cross-GDB with
> `--host=foo --target=bar' and `gdbserver' with `--host=bar'. Sometimes
> your build environment may not even be capable to build native GDB with
> `--host=bar', or your target system to run it, and in any case building
> GDB takes a lot of processing time compared to `gdbserver'. So it would
> be a waste of resources if we forced people to do that.

Well, that is a fair point. In which case i think we have a bug in our
hands.

>
> I build `gdbserver' by itself routinely, although I only did the minimum
> to convert from the old layout, that is rather than calling `configure'
> from gdb/gdbserver/ I now call it from gdbserver/. So far it has worked,
> although with the new arrangement it probably qualifies as a hack, and may
> stop working sometime.
>
> Maciej
>