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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: errors in GDB reading symbols
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y6pzhcnb.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon\, 3 Aug 2009 13\:01\:38 -0400")

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

Tom> I'd like to propose that we get rid of libgdb.a entirely.
Tom> I think all it does is slow down the build.

Daniel> Unfortunately, there's an IDE (Free Pascal?) that uses it.  I don't
Daniel> know of other uses.

Daniel> I'm still in favor of being rid of it; but we should warn them directly.

I looked into this yesterday.

Removing this doesn't shave much time off the build -- 5 seconds on my
machine.  Still, it would probably be good to do.  While doing this, I
did discover we have duplicate objects in libgdb.a, oops.

I think the Free Pascal folks already know about this problem:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg13661.html

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01 21:38 kceiwH
2009-08-02 23:45 ` kceiwH
2009-08-03 16:53 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-03 17:01   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-03 20:47     ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
2009-08-04 14:33     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-08-04 14:46       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-04 14:47         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-04 14:52       ` Jonas Maebe
2009-08-04 14:55         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-06 17:09         ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-06 21:00           ` Jonas Maebe
2009-08-07 16:24             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-07 20:48 Marco van de Voort
2009-08-11 21:00 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-12  0:56   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-08-21 17:33     ` Tom Tromey

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