Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add a --{enable,disable}-backends option

[Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat dot com>]

Jan Heylen <heyleke@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, I was thinking it would go into this direction. I'm willing to do
> the effort for this (as having the right backend installed could be
> useful one day indeed), should I even consider looking at the
> mjw/RH-DTS branch? Or how do you propose I could tackle this?

The main purpose of the DTS branch is static linking, and that in turn
we do due to requirements of Red Hat Developer Toolset (RH DTS).  The
fact that we only build a subset of arches stems from that--it wouldn't
be practical to bundle the whole bunch with each application that uses
libelf or libdw.

The changes that were needed to achieve the above weren't particularly
clean, and I doubt it would be useful to look at the code.

Thanks,
Petr