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build/1401: Getting rid of libreadline thru configure.
- From: raul at pleyades dot net
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 30 Sep 2003 18:28:42 -0000
- Subject: build/1401: Getting rid of libreadline thru configure.
- Reply-to: raul at pleyades dot net
>Number: 1401
>Category: build
>Synopsis: Getting rid of libreadline thru configure.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 30 18:38:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <raul@pleyades.net>
>Release: gdb-5.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux 2.4.21, GCC 3.3, gdb configured as 'i686-pc-linux-gnu'
>Description:
Some people, like me, doesn't use libreadline in their systems,
and doesn't want libreadline support in gdb, so it would be
great if I could avoid libreadline linking using, for example,
--without-readline or --disable-readline, just like Bash does,
for example. 'libreadline' imposes a burden of almost 800kB in
the gdb binary, and for people like me is completely useless.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with libreadline code, and
a really clean solution would involve conditional compilation
etc... (just like some ftp client out there), but another
solution would be to provide a dummy libreadline.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: