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Re: [RFC/ia64] link against libunwind rather than using dlopen
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> The gdb binary years ago could be freely copied across hosts and it
Jan> still worked.
[...]
Jan> Unfortunately since DT_NEEDED libpython this feature is already lost so it
Jan> should be OK now even for libunwind.so.7.
We could make this work if we truly wanted to. It just seems like a lot
of effort; and building gdb is not so very hard.
The other day I was thinking we could even automate it by reading the
libpython debuginfo to generate weak declarations for the public API :-)
But, ok, that is not practical for regular gdb builds.
Tom