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[Bug build/17077] --with-system-readline uses bundled readline include files
- From: "jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:43:49 +0000
- Subject: [Bug build/17077] --with-system-readline uses bundled readline include files
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- References: <bug-17077-4717 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17077
--- Comment #5 from Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org from comment #3)
> The ones who can compile gdb, shall also be able to compile and install
> libreadline.
Additionally IIRC there was a resistance against any mandatory external
dependencies for the sourceware sourcetree. The reasoning IIRC was that it is
inconvenient for cross-arch bootstraps but GDB does not belong to the
bootstraping compiler chain. So IMO it is wrong but it is so.
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