Re: Windows DLL support update (a bit slimmer version)

Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-13T14:02:12Z

> 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?