Re: static linking of gdb

[Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>]

On 4/5/20 3:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
>> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:13:42 +0200
>>
>> I noticed that gdb is currently not
>> linking libstdc++ statically, as it did
>> in the past if I remember correclty.
> 
> You need to request that by passing --with-static-standard-libraries
> to the configure script.  Note that if you do that, you may encounter
> an error at configure time, because the configure script thinks the
> above option is incompatible with source-highlight library (without
> checking whether a static version of that library is available).  This
> was reported here:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-February/165843.html
> 
> but AFAIK was not fixed yet.
> 

Ah, yes, indeed.

I need to configure as
../binutils-gdb/configure --prefix=/home/ed/gnu/gdb-install-1 --disable-binutils --disable-gas --disable-gprof --disable-ld --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-source-highlight

Can someone explain to me why gdbserver needs source highlight?

Or for what I need a source highlight at all ;-) ?

I never used tui mode FWIW.
I do not even use eclipse.


Bernd.