From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19041 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2009 14:33:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 19033 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2009 14:33:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:33:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n74EXZPf014341 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:33:35 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n74EXXpu027134; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:33:34 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n74EXXal018920; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:33:33 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 96C3A50822E; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:33:31 -0600 (MDT) To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: errors in GDB reading symbols References: <97234C41-9CA5-4A2C-89BA-6B54256D8B81@gmail.com> <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090803170138.GA32482@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon\, 3 Aug 2009 13\:01\:38 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00009.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz 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