From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 826 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2003 22:23:42 -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 818 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 22:23:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 22:23:42 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UFd7-0000x8-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:24:05 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18UDkX-0004Bi-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:23:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:23:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Shared library cruft in configure.in Message-ID: <20030102222336.GA16040@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200301022102.h02L2JnG061454@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301022102.h02L2JnG061454@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:02:19PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > 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? None at all. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer