From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>,
jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr>,
binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Trying to install binutils-gdb
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:30:37 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2401281915050.15781@angie.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b4ae55d-6651-03a2-0180-be439f18531d@redhat.com>
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
> > > If you only want to build the binutils and not GDB as well then
> > > you can add a configure option to disable GDB. This may help
> > > reduce the need for extra libraries to be installed. ie:
> > >
> > > ./configure --disable-gdb
> >
> > ...so this step would then be confusing.
> >
> > IMHO it needs to say something like "if you build from a
> > checkout of the binutils-gdb git, you may also want to build
> > only binutils and exclude gdb, like so:" [...]
>
> That makes sense. I have checked in the following updated patch instead.
I have only come across this message now.
Note that nowadays we have other GDB components at the top level, most
notably `gdbserver', as well as the GNU simulator, all of which are a part
of the GDB project. So to build parts that comprise binutils only from a
git checkout you really need to disable more, such as with:
$ ./configure --disable-gdb --disable-gdbserver --disable-libbacktrace \
--disable-libdecnumber --disable-readline --disable-sim
This is what I have been doing with my builds.
I'll be happy to offer a patch if this turns out how we want to update
binutils/README further, however it seems to me that we probably want to
have a pair of umbrella options, say `--disable-gdb-components' and
`--disable-binutils-components', to let people choose more easily what
project they want to build from a checkout without the need to dive into
individual components and also possibly without having to keep track of
what new components get added as they upgrade. There'd be a slight
maintenance burden for such options though.
Cc-ing the GDB mailing list for any input from the other camp.
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-28 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-26 19:51 jacob navia
2023-09-26 21:49 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-09-27 14:42 ` Nick Clifton
2023-09-28 0:42 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2023-09-29 10:23 ` Nick Clifton
2024-01-28 19:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2024-01-29 8:52 ` Guinevere Larsen
2024-01-29 16:50 ` Nick Clifton
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