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Re: errors in GDB reading symbols
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
Tom> I'd like to propose that we get rid of libgdb.a entirely.
Tom> I think all it does is slow down the build.
Daniel> Unfortunately, there's an IDE (Free Pascal?) that uses it. I don't
Daniel> know of other uses.
Daniel> I'm still in favor of being rid of it; but we should warn them directly.
I looked into this yesterday.
Removing this doesn't shave much time off the build -- 5 seconds on my
machine. Still, it would probably be good to do. While doing this, I
did discover we have duplicate objects in libgdb.a, oops.
I think the Free Pascal folks already know about this problem:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg13661.html
Tom