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Re: [PATCH] Allow to disable components
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:04:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow to disable components
On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 11:51 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> We this split up and why do you want to enable/disable these specific
> parts?
>
> I don't think it makes sense to be able to not build the ebl backends
> (unless you don't build libasm, libdw and also not the tools - only
> libelf doesn't directly use the backends). And obviously various tools
> won't build if you disable either libdw or libasm. And libasm won't
> build without libdw.
>
> arpg is part of the libdwfl interface, so isn't really specific to the
> tools.
And again, the testsuite needs to be adapted to skip any tests that
don't make sense when some parts are disabled.
Thanks,
Mark