https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87741
Bug ID: 87741
Summary: Don't build readline/libreadline.a in GDB, when
--with-system-readline is supplied
Product: gcc
Version: 7.3.1
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: bootstrap
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: dilyan.palauzov at aegee dot org
Target Milestone: ---
Please integrate this snippet, so that gdb can skip building the shipped
libreadline, when the system-libreadline is used, see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18632 for details
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -253,6 +253,12 @@ if test x$with_system_zlib = xyes ; then
noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs zlib"
fi
+# Don't compile the bundled readline/libreadline.a in gdb-binutils if
+# --with-system-readline is provided.
+if test x$with_system_readline = xyes ; then
+ noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs readline"
+fi
+
# some tools are so dependent upon X11 that if we're not building with X,
# it's not even worth trying to configure, much less build, that tool.
