Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > > > Are we talking about the same patch?
> > > > Yep!
> > > I see -- I need to apply both changes to the branch.
> > >
> > > Well, that didn't help, and neither did applying the one change to HEAD.
> > >
> > > I tried configuring both with and without --enable-shared.
> > >
> > > In all cases, it tried to link statically.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking, if gdb links against python statically, that will 
> > > certainly bloat the gdb executable...
> > Hmmm, yes, unstripped gdb-7.2 is about 6 meg bigger than 7.1.
>
> And even stripped, gdb is now 32 percent bigger.

So... aren't there some distro-related concerns about linking
gdb against a static system library?