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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python
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Michael Snyder wrote:
> Michael Snyder wrote:
>> Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>> Are we talking about the same patch?
>>> Yep!
>> I see -- I need to apply both changes to the branch.
>>
>> Well, that didn't help, and neither did applying the one change to HEAD.
>>
>> I tried configuring both with and without --enable-shared.
>>
>> In all cases, it tried to link statically.
>>
>> I'm thinking, if gdb links against python statically, that will 
>> certainly bloat the gdb executable...
>>
> 
> Hmmm, yes, unstripped gdb-7.2 is about 6 meg bigger than 7.1.

And even stripped, gdb is now 32 percent bigger.