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Re: Always include elf.lo?


On 5/21/07, Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt> wrote:
Nick Clifton wrote:
>> Does anyone object to always compiling elf.lo for BFD, regardless of
>> the target?  I haven't tried it, but looking at the tangled
>> dependencies I think this will mean all of $elf too.
>
> This does seem to be overkill.   Unless there is a good reason why GDB
> cannot be modified I would prefer not bloat the non-ELF versions of the
> BFD library in this way.

Isn't bfd normally used as a static lib?  If so, then only gdb
would suffer the extra "bloat", which is needed anyway.
Perhaps the only real bad effect would added build time.

i guess you're implying that the option "--enable-shared" is discouraged and effectively not supported ? -mike


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