shared libraries problem building insight

shared libraries problem building insight

[RenE J.V. Bertin]

I am trying to get gdb/insight 5.1.1 to build using shared libraries,
notably the already installed tk/tcl. Below is the report I tried to submit
via the bug tracking system (but that gave me an error). I'd be grateful for
any hints as to what I do wrong.

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In the default build (modified to use -O2 and not -g), gdb/insight is huge,
and installs a considerable number of static libraries (that itself was
linked against). There is very little installation/configuration
information. The configure command understands the --enable-shared flag, and
will generate shared libraries instead of static. The size of the resulting
gdb is hardly smaller, and it is not linked against the system tk/tcl libs.
When I force that to happen, ide_initialize_paths claims it can't find the
TCL library in a path that I don't know how to modify.

Also, the make terminates because
ranlib libitk3.0.so
ranlib: libitk3.0.so: File format not recognized
(running it again succesfully completes the build).

Repeat:
configure --enable-shared
# edit all Makefiles to change '-g' or '-g -O' into '-O2'
make
# after the ranlib error
make

ls -l gdb/gdb
# (around 3Mb)







RenE J.V. Bertin
College de France/LPPA
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
75005 Paris, France


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