From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Orth 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 Message-id: <13974.37950.226281.104005@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> References: <199812302155.NAA19227@andros.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00004.html 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