From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 463 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2003 12:54:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 330 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 12:53:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2003 12:53:58 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19kNne-0006dt-80 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:53:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:54:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Binutils and GDB Message-ID: <20030806125353.GA24354@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <1060171527.9735.23.camel@steve.softier.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060171527.9735.23.camel@steve.softier.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00075.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:05:27PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote: > Greetings all, > > I apologize for what will probably seem a hopelessly clueless and newbie > question, but I am stuck, so here goes: > > I notice that the GDB source tree has a lot of what seems to be almost > identical code in common with the binutils source tree. I have made > some changes to the binutils 2.14 source tree, specifically in the BFD > and opcodes directories that I wish to integrate into GDB. How do I do > this with the minimum amount of effort? Is there a way to tell the GDB > configure to not configure the GDB's bfd, rather use another already > built BFD library? How, if so? No, GDB can't use the system BFD. I recommend just applying the patch. The directory is common to both projects, but gdb and binutils branch at different times. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer