[patch] Smaller gdb: -rdynamic -> -Wl,--dynamic-list

[Andreas Schwab]

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

> --- a/gdb/configure.ac
> +++ b/gdb/configure.ac
> @@ -1312,6 +1312,30 @@ dnl Note that we only want this if we are both native (host == target),
>  dnl and not doing a canadian cross build (build == host).
>  
>  if test ${build} = ${host} -a ${host} = ${target} ; then
> +   if test "$GCC" = "yes" ; then
> +      # The dynamically loaded libthread_db needs access to symbols in the gdb
> +      # executable.  Older GNU ld supports --export-dynamic but --dynamic-list
> +      # may not be supported there.
> +      AC_MSG_CHECKING(for the dynamic export flag)

Why only for non-canadian-cross builds?  Previously -rdynamic was used
for any native configuration, now you can no longer cross-build a
working gdb.

Andreas.

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