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Re: [RFC] Shared library cruft in configure.in
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:02:19PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> There is some code in configure.in to "support" --enable-shared. Its
> purpose seems to be to make it possible to build a GDB that's linked
> against shared versions of libraries from elsewhere in the Cygnus tree
> (e.g. bfd, opcodes). However, we always use static libraries when
> linking (../bfd/libbfd.a, ../opcodes/opcodes.a). Therefore I think
> the code is completely useless, and I propose to whack it. If, in the
> future, we want to support a GDB linked against a shared libbfd and
> libopcodes, we shouldn't use this code anyway, but use libtool
> instead.
>
> Any objects?
None at all.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer