Re: [PATCH 15/16] Highlight source code using GNU Source Highlight

Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-11-24T18:13:47Z

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:41 AM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew> I know this patch has been in for almost a year now. But I have a
> Andrew> question, is there a way to build GNU Source Highlight as a static
> Andrew> library and have it built at the top level? Like what is done for
> Andrew> GMP/MPFR for GCC? It would reduce how I built a gdb that is for a
> Andrew> non-native target.
>
> There's currently no support for dropping the sources into the tree.
> However, I think it would be fine if you wanted to add such support.

Note that the source highlight library depends on boost_regex and ICU,
according to ldd, so that might make this harder?

(I wonder why it doesn't use std::regex)

Christian