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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>
To: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
Cc: bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [gdb 19981224] Enable linking gdb against shared libbfd
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <npr9rk1sx4.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901031957.OAA20819@subrogation.cygnus.com>

In a long-ago discussion on whether GDB should use a shared BFD, Ian
Taylor said:

> Correct: there are no current plans to use -release when building a
> BFD shared library.
>
> I believe the correct solution for BFD is to rename the shared library
> based on the BFD version number.  However, this is not currently
> implemented.

Why is including the BFD version in the shared library name preferable
to using -release?

  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-20 16:50 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
1999-02-21 17:10       ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-01-07 17:23   ` H.J. Lu
1999-01-08 15:27     ` Rainer Orth

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