Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add a --{enable,disable}-backends option

[Jan Heylen <heyleke at gmail dot com>]

On Apr 3, 2015 5:31 PM, "Petr Machata" <pmachata@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Jan Heylen <heyleke@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Ok, I was thinking it would go into this direction. I'm willing to do
> > the effort for this (as having the right backend installed could be
> > useful one day indeed), should I even consider looking at the
> > mjw/RH-DTS branch? Or how do you propose I could tackle this?
>
> The main purpose of the DTS branch is static linking, and that in turn
> we do due to requirements of Red Hat Developer Toolset (RH DTS).  The
> fact that we only build a subset of arches stems from that--it wouldn't
> be practical to bundle the whole bunch with each application that uses
> libelf or libdw.
>
> The changes that were needed to achieve the above weren't particularly
> clean, and I doubt it would be useful to look at the code.

I had a look, indeed not what I need, I was already looking at autoconf and
parsing the list of backends, only need to find a way to get the available
backends from the backends subfolder/makefile

Jan

> Thanks,
> Petr

On Apr 3, 2015 5:31 PM, "Petr Machata" <pmachata@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Jan Heylen <heyleke@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Ok, I was thinking it would go into this direction. I'm willing to do
> > the effort for this (as having the right backend installed could be
> > useful one day indeed), should I even consider looking at the
> > mjw/RH-DTS branch? Or how do you propose I could tackle this?
>
> The main purpose of the DTS branch is static linking, and that in turn
> we do due to requirements of Red Hat Developer Toolset (RH DTS).  The
> fact that we only build a subset of arches stems from that--it wouldn't
> be practical to bundle the whole bunch with each application that uses
> libelf or libdw.
>
> The changes that were needed to achieve the above weren't particularly
> clean, and I doubt it would be useful to look at the code.

I had a look, indeed not what I need, I was already looking at autoconf and parsing the list of backends, only need to find a way to get the available backends from the backends subfolder/makefile

Jan

> Thanks,
> Petr