From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23778 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2003 21:02:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23728 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 21:02:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton.kettenis.dyndns.org) (62.163.169.250) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 21:02:32 -0000 Received: from elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org (elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org [192.168.0.2]) by walton.kettenis.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h02L2J0j002673 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:02:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kettenis@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org) Received: from elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02L2Jfi061457 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:02:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kettenis@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h02L2JnG061454; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:02:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:02:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200301022102.h02L2JnG061454@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> From: Mark Kettenis To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: [RFC] Shared library cruft in configure.in X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 There is some code in configure.in to "support" --enable-shared. Its purpose seems to be to make it possible to build a GDB that's linked against shared versions of libraries from elsewhere in the Cygnus tree (e.g. bfd, opcodes). However, we always use static libraries when linking (../bfd/libbfd.a, ../opcodes/opcodes.a). Therefore I think the code is completely useless, and I propose to whack it. If, in the future, we want to support a GDB linked against a shared libbfd and libopcodes, we shouldn't use this code anyway, but use libtool instead. Any objects? Mark