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Re: Another problem: libbfd.a not found


Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> I configured gdb as (Current CVS sources on i686 Linux 2.3.42, glibc 2.1.3pre3):
> /cvs/binutils-gdb-ln/configure --prefix=/opt/binutils --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-nls
> 
> and got (after fixing some build problems):
> 
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../bfd/libbfd.a', needed by `gdb'.  Stop.
> 
> ls gives:
> $ ls bfd/libbfd*
> bfd/libbfd.la  bfd/libbfd.lo  bfd/libbfd.o
> 
> gdb shouldn't search for libbfd.a - I explictly asked only for shared
> libs.

I think, for this 5.0 release, the most pratical approach may be to
document that GDB can't be built linked against a shared bfd et.al.  All
prior releases certainly haven't supported that.

(unless someone can come up with a clone of the GAS configury fo GDB).

	Andrew

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