Re: V2 [PATCH] PKG_CHECK_MODULES: Check if $pkg_cv_[]$1[]_LIBS works

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:47 AM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-28 2:31 p.m., H.J. Lu wrote:
> >>> Unlike gdb, binutils should have as few external depecies as possible.
> >>> debuginfod brings in some so many external depecies.
> >>
> >> I'm not a binutils maintainer, so that's not my role to decide about that
> >> tradeoff... but we are talking about having an optional (only needed when
> >> enabling support for libdebuginfod) *build* dependency on a quite standard
> >> tool.  That's not very demanding.
> >>
> >> If you don't want to deal with libdebuginfod, you can also just build with
> >> --without-debuginfod.
> >
> > My binutils script had been working fine until pkg.m4 was added
>
> Ok but... that doesn't mean anything.  I think we made it quite clear that the
> issue is with your build environment, not the build system (pkg.m4).

Binutils configure script is supposed to detect if a feature is usable.
In my perspective, pkg.m4 failed on my build environment.

> >Can it be moved to gdb directory?
>
> It can, but I don't think it would be a good idea.  It would just be confusing
> for binutils and GDB to both use libdebuginfod but use different methods of
> finding it.  Somebody building binutils + GDB with libdebuginfod support against
> a libdebuginfod in a non-default location would have to specify the location of
> the library in two different ways.
>
> Simon



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H.J.