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Re: errors in GDB reading symbols

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:53:35AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I think we would prefer that you not use libgdb.  Nobody has worked on
> turning gdb into a library in many years.  What you see in the tree is
> not even the minimum necessary to get that to work.
> 
> I'd like to propose that we get rid of libgdb.a entirely.
> I think all it does is slow down the build.

Unfortunately, there's an IDE (Free Pascal?) that uses it.  I don't
know of other uses.

I'm still in favor of being rid of it; but we should warn them directly.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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