* Re: Trying to install binutils-gdb
2024-01-28 19:30 ` Trying to install binutils-gdb Maciej W. Rozycki
@ 2024-01-29 8:52 ` Guinevere Larsen
2024-01-29 16:50 ` Nick Clifton
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From: Guinevere Larsen @ 2024-01-29 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej W. Rozycki, Nick Clifton
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson, jacob navia, binutils, gdb
On 28/01/2024 20:30, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 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.
yes please!
I can never remember all the components that I need to disable from
binutils to get as quick a compilation as possible. I am still not sure
if I did disable everything or if copying my previous configure run
isn't accidentally building some parts unnecessarily. I'm not sure if I
personally like the `-components` suffix, but I don't have any better
suggestions.
--
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
She/Her/Hers
>
> Cc-ing the GDB mailing list for any input from the other camp.
>
> Maciej
>
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* Re: Trying to install binutils-gdb
2024-01-28 19:30 ` Trying to install binutils-gdb Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-01-29 8:52 ` Guinevere Larsen
@ 2024-01-29 16:50 ` Nick Clifton
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From: Nick Clifton @ 2024-01-29 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej W. Rozycki; +Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson, jacob navia, binutils, gdb
Hi Maciej,
> $ ./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,
I think that that would be a good idea, at least until your suggestion
below is implemented.
> 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.
To make things simpler, I think that it might be better to have users
'enable' the tool that they want. ie:
"configure --enable-gdb" just configure gdb and friends
"configure --enable-binutils" just configures the binutils stuff
We might even make it so that if neither of these options are given then
configure prints: "configuring both GDB and BINUTILS, is this really what you want ?"
or something like that.
Cheers
Nick
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