From: Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
Cc: shebs@cygnus.com (Stan Shebs),
gdb-patches@cygnus.com, gdb@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [gdb 19981224] Enable linking gdb against shared libbfd
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13974.37950.226281.104005@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0zyQe2-00038dC@ocean.lucon.org>
H.J. Lu writes:
> However, the ABI of libbfd changes quite often. A system
> wide libfd may not work very well. You may not use libbfd from
> binutils 2.9.1 with gdb 19981224. If you are suggesting make
that's why I asked about proper library versioning and interface stability
in libbfd. But the responses indicate that this won't happen for quite
some time, if at all.
> libbfd in gdb shared, I don't see any benefit to do so since
> the shared libbfd may only be safely used with the gdb where
> the libbfd comes from. Also on Linux, I make the whole gdb binary
> static. It is very useful when you work on C libraries.
:-) But generally unnecessary on commercial Unixes. As I said, if you
could share one libbfd between binutils and gdb, that would save some
space.
Rainer
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <13961.11084.647489.224494@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
1998-12-30 13:55 ` Stan Shebs
1999-01-03 11:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-02-20 16:50 ` Jim Blandy
1999-02-21 17:10 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-01-07 17:23 ` H.J. Lu
1999-01-08 15:27 ` Rainer Orth [this message]
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