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[RFC] Shared library cruft in configure.in
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:02:19 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: [RFC] Shared library cruft in configure.in
There is some code in configure.in to "support" --enable-shared. Its
purpose seems to be to make it possible to build a GDB that's linked
against shared versions of libraries from elsewhere in the Cygnus tree
(e.g. bfd, opcodes). However, we always use static libraries when
linking (../bfd/libbfd.a, ../opcodes/opcodes.a). Therefore I think
the code is completely useless, and I propose to whack it. If, in the
future, we want to support a GDB linked against a shared libbfd and
libopcodes, we shouldn't use this code anyway, but use libtool
instead.
Any objects?
Mark