Binutils and GDB

[Stephen Biggs]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:53, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
> 
But, this is a big mess, no?  That means that any changes in the system
binutils BFD have to be reflected in the GDB BFD and back-patched, which
they seem NOT to be... how does this work at all?