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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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Subject: Re: Windows DLL support update (a bit slimmer version)
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> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:52:20 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:05:12PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > DLL support is pretty important in my opinion, and some users might
> > > be surprised to see it disappear silently because their system does
> > > not have libexpat installed.
> > 
> > Yes.  How about adding a warning message to GDB stating that lack of
> > libexpat causes the related feature to not work, when the user tries
> > to invoke a command that's affected?
> 
> Yes, this is done:
> 
>       warning (_("Can not parse XML library list; XML support was disabled "
>                  "at compile time"));

Then Joel, why do you say above ``disappear silently''?  Can you
describe a situation where this warning is not displayed?