Patch for binutils configure cleanup

Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
Fri Jul 1 14:23:00 GMT 2005


> I believe this is the last remaining use of BFD_NEED_DECLARATION, which
> means we should be removing it from bfd/bfd.m4 now.  Please submit a
> patch for that to complete this change.

There is one more use in src/gdb/gdbserver.  I will be submitting a patch
to gdb to remove that use and then I will submit a patch to binutils to
get rid of the definition of BFD_NEED_DECLARATION.

> Optionally, if you want some more busy work to do, there is the related
> GAS_CHECK_DECL_NEEDED macro in gas/acinclude.m4 that probably isn't need
> anymore.  Getting rid of this one may be a bit more work as you will
> have to figure out exactly what it is doing.

I'll take a look at it.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com



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