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Re: Another problem: libbfd.a not found
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: Another problem: libbfd.a not found
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:33:48 +1100
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <u87lgcj3ks.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de>
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> I configured gdb as (Current CVS sources on i686 Linux 2.3.42, glibc 2.1.3pre3):
> /cvs/binutils-gdb-ln/configure --prefix=/opt/binutils --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-nls
>
> and got (after fixing some build problems):
>
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../bfd/libbfd.a', needed by `gdb'. Stop.
>
> ls gives:
> $ ls bfd/libbfd*
> bfd/libbfd.la bfd/libbfd.lo bfd/libbfd.o
>
> gdb shouldn't search for libbfd.a - I explictly asked only for shared
> libs.
I think, for this 5.0 release, the most pratical approach may be to
document that GDB can't be built linked against a shared bfd et.al. All
prior releases certainly haven't supported that.
(unless someone can come up with a clone of the GAS configury fo GDB).
Andrew