[Bug build/15916] New: gdb assumes lib(bfd,opcodes) are static

["dilyan.palauzov at aegee dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15916

            Bug ID: 15916
           Summary: gdb assumes lib(bfd,opcodes) are static
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.6
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: build
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: dilyan.palauzov at aegee dot org

In my /usr/local/etc/config.site I have

  export enable_static=no
  export enable_shared=yes

which means that a "./configure" always generates only shared and no static
libraries.  For this reason, when I compile gdb, only shared libbfd is created.
 However gdb/Makefile.in on line 134

  # Where is the BFD library?  Typically in ../bfd.
  BFD_DIR = ../bfd
  BFD = $(BFD_DIR)/libbfd.a    <===== here
  BFD_SRC = $(srcdir)/$(BFD_DIR)
  BFD_CFLAGS = -I$(BFD_DIR) -I$(BFD_SRC)

assumes, that a static libbfd.a is going to be created, which is not the case.

Proposal:
  replace BFD with -lbfd and add in CLIBS (gbd/Makefile.in, line 476)
-L$(BFD_DIR) before $(BFD)

Second proposal:
  move libbfd to a separate package, on which binutils and gdb depend, no
matter if libbfd is static or shared.

Exactly the same observations apply for libopcodes.

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