From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21041 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2009 17:01:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 20946 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Aug 2009 17:01:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:01:42 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D56210D3F; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:01:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC6310D19; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:01:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MY0uo-0008Sm-7s; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: kceiwH , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: errors in GDB reading symbols Message-ID: <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , kceiwH , gdb@sourceware.org References: <97234C41-9CA5-4A2C-89BA-6B54256D8B81@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-08/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:53:35AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > I think we would prefer that you not use libgdb. Nobody has worked on > turning gdb into a library in many years. What you see in the tree is > not even the minimum necessary to get that to work. > > I'd like to propose that we get rid of libgdb.a entirely. > I think all it does is slow down the build. Unfortunately, there's an IDE (Free Pascal?) that uses it. I don't know of other uses. I'm still in favor of being rid of it; but we should warn them directly. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery