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.