Dan Nicholson wrote: > I'm not a programmer, but this is my guess. In order for gdb to be > able to properly debug binaries, it needs to link libbfd.a and > libiberty.a into the gdb binary. It builds its own since it can't > depend on the host and it may be tied to specific versions of libbfd > and libiberty. The fact that they're installed seems to be a flaw > since running gdb shouldn't depend on static libraries being present > on the host.
I signed up on the gdb mailing list and asked why the libraries are installed over binutils' libraries. Maybe we'll get an answer. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
