[PATCH] debug/gdb: include expat for gdb-cross
Trevor Woerner
twoerner@gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 14:34:00 GMT 2013
Hi Yann,
Thanks for looking into this.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> This is wrong:
> - 'do_expat' is used to detect whether the expat lib shall be downloaded
> and extracted;
> - 'do_expat' is then mis-used:
> - it is never used to build expat for the host, but is used to decide
> whether to enable/disable expat in the cross-gdb
> - it is used to decide whether to build expat for the target, but is
> always set when the native-gdb is selected, so the check is pointless.
So if I understand you correctly, the only thing the build needs to
determine is if expat needs to be included in the sysroot?
> What should be done is:
> - rename 'do_expat' to 'need_expat' (ditto for 'do_ncurses')
> - use 'need_expat' only to decide whether to download/extract libexpat
> - cross-gdb: always enable expat support
> - native-gdb: ditto
In other words, if the build doesn't interfere with gdb's ./configure,
gdb's ./configure will naturally look for and link in the host's
expat?
Best regards,
Trevor
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