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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Build GDB as a C++ program by default
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: palves at redhat dot com
- Cc: simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:07:10 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Build GDB as a C++ program by default
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:59:24 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> CC: simon.marchi@ericsson.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > I don't see how linking statically removes the requirement to
> > provide access to sources.
>
> It does, because there's a special clause for that in the L?GPL, whch
> only holds for static linking.
Or maybe I'm wrong and this clause is in the libgcc license, I no
longer remember. But the exemption does exist, and it does cover only
static linking.