Re: Always include elf.lo?

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Hi Nick,

Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Does anyone object to always compiling elf.lo for BFD, regardless of
> > the target?  I haven't tried it, but looking at the tangled
> > dependencies I think this will mean all of $elf too.
>
> This does seem to be overkill.   Unless there is a good reason why GDB 
> cannot be modified I would prefer not bloat the non-ELF versions of the 
> BFD library in this way.

Isn't bfd normally used as a static lib?  If so, then only gdb
would suffer the extra "bloat", which is needed anyway.
Perhaps the only real bad effect would added build time.

Daniel, I did try the attached as a workaround before reporting,
but failed to mention it.

Cheers,
Pedro Alves

---
 configure    |    8 ++++----
 configure.in |    8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: bfd/configure.in
===================================================================
--- bfd.orig/configure.in	2007-05-07 02:45:08.000000000 +0100
+++ bfd/configure.in	2007-05-19 19:10:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -580,10 +580,10 @@ do
     arm_epoc_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     arm_epoc_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     arm_epoc_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pe_big_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
+    arm_wince_pe_big_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
     armcoff_big_vec)		tb="$tb coff-arm.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     armcoff_little_vec)		tb="$tb coff-arm.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     armnetbsd_vec)		tb="$tb armnetbsd.lo aout32.lo" ;;
Index: bfd/configure
===================================================================
--- bfd.orig/configure	2007-05-07 02:45:08.000000000 +0100
+++ bfd/configure	2007-05-19 19:13:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -13695,10 +13695,10 @@ do
     arm_epoc_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     arm_epoc_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     arm_epoc_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb epoc-pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pe_big_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
-    arm_wince_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
+    arm_wince_pe_big_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pe_little_vec)	tb="$tb pe-arm-wince.lo pe-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pei_big_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
+    arm_wince_pei_little_vec)	tb="$tb pei-arm-wince.lo pei-arm.lo peigen.lo cofflink.lo $elf" ;;
     armcoff_big_vec)		tb="$tb coff-arm.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     armcoff_little_vec)		tb="$tb coff-arm.lo cofflink.lo " ;;
     armnetbsd_vec)		tb="$tb armnetbsd.lo aout32.lo" ;;