Binutils and GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:05:27PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I apologize for what will probably seem a hopelessly clueless and newbie
> question, but I am stuck, so here goes:
> 
> I notice that the GDB source tree has a lot of what seems to be almost
> identical code in common with the binutils source tree.  I have made
> some changes to the binutils 2.14 source tree, specifically in the BFD
> and opcodes directories that I wish to integrate into GDB.  How do I do
> this with the minimum amount of effort?  Is there a way to tell the GDB
> configure to not configure the GDB's bfd, rather use another already
> built BFD library? How, if so?

No, GDB can't use the system BFD.  I recommend just applying the patch. 
The directory is common to both projects, but gdb and binutils branch
at different times.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer