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Re: backward/forward compatibility of binutils
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>
- Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan dot algebra dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:22:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: backward/forward compatibility of binutils
- References: <200607070250.17161@aldan> <20060707125112.GG22573@lug-owl.de>
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:51:12PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On the other hand, those patches didn't happen that often, so one
> probably _could_ do that.
... but when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
I'd ask that if you want to ship a libbfd for public use, only ship the
static library. It may be useful to ship the dynamic library, if only
because it saves a lot of space in as/ld/objcopy/objdump/strip, but gdb
may not want the same copy.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery