From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 39103 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2015 11:43:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-prs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-prs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 39044 invoked by uid 48); 7 Jul 2015 11:43:49 -0000 From: "jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com" To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug build/17077] --with-system-readline uses bundled readline include files Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:43:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gdb X-Bugzilla-Component: build X-Bugzilla-Version: HEAD X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17077 --- Comment #5 from Jan Kratochvil --- (In reply to dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org from comment #3) > The ones who can compile gdb, shall also be able to compile and install > libreadline. Additionally IIRC there was a resistance against any mandatory external dependencies for the sourceware sourcetree. The reasoning IIRC was that it is inconvenient for cross-arch bootstraps but GDB does not belong to the bootstraping compiler chain. So IMO it is wrong but it is so. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.