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Re: Windows DLL support update (a bit slimmer version)
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:52:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: Windows DLL support update (a bit slimmer version)
- References: <46C8BEC4.3030807@portugalmail.pt> <20070903174605.GK12440@caradoc.them.org> <20071012213136.GG8721@adacore.com>
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:31:36PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It looks like this change makes it necessary to have libexpat installed
> for DLLs support to work. Am I right? I'm looking for a simple way of
> avoiding this dependency, but I can't find any at the moment :-(.
Yes it does.
> Given the growing importance that XML is taking in GDB, maybe there
> will be a day when it is worth having a copy of the expat sources in
> GDB, and always build with expat.
I was told that importing expat was unacceptable. I was also told
that requiring it be installed to build GDB was unacceptable. This
is about the best I can manage given those restrictions.
Could you explain why you want to avoid expat? It's not like you have
to use a DLL version; it should not complicate shipping GDB at all.
It just has to be in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS when you're building GDB.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery