FreeBSD 4.6 - binutils 2.14 installs useless libbfd

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Alan Modra wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:28:59PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> > 
> > Compiling and installing binutils 2.14 on Free BSD 4.6 stable installs a
> > libbfd.a that is dependent upon libintl.a (unresolved _dcgettext etc.
> > symbols) but does not install libintl.a itself, meaning the library is
> > useless.
> > 
> > What should be happening ?
> 
> In my (somewhat controversial) option, libbfd should never be installed.
> The reason being that making libbfd a public library constrains the
> binutils project to keeping old interfaces forever.  Or it should.  In
> practice, libbfd hasn't retained backwards compatibility.  Other
> projects such as gdb recognize this fact by distributing libbfd sources,
> making an installed libbfd fairly useless.

<question mode=dumb>
SONAME shared libbfd which comes with binutils on each release changes. Is
it mean API also realy changes on each binutis release ?
</question>

kloczek
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