Re: Binutils and GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:54:39PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:53, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> But, this is a big mess, no?  That means that any changes in the system
> binutils BFD have to be reflected in the GDB BFD and back-patched, which
> they seem NOT to be... how does this work at all?

Eh?

The master sources for binutils and GDB live in the same CVS
repository.  So the masters are always in sync.  Distributors have to
patch both copies if they need local patches - but in general, they
don't.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer