Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/08/25/05:02:45
Hi!
Friday, 25 August, 2000 Andrej Borsenkow Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru wrote:
>> AB> The reason is, new dumper utility needs it. It is very unfortunate, as up to
>> AB> now Cygwin did not depend on other packages, and you could compile it
>> AB> "standalone". Yes, I know, compiling off CVS is always risky ...
>>
>> I believe libintl is pretty stable these days. Last change in it dated
>> 1997-09-06, so you can safely pull it from cvs. Moreover, cygwin do
>> depend on other packages -- newlib, libiberty
>>
AB> More precisely - when I check out module `winsup', I get *everything* that is
AB> needed to build cygwin (including newlib and libiberty). When I said "Cygwin"
AB> I actually meant "module winsup" :-)
well, this means that someone with write access to sourceware cvs
should add bfd and intl to module winsup. Chris?
>> AB> BTW dumper needs libbfd - is it modified library? Then it would need binutils
>> AB> ... and that means another several MB just to compile a single program. SIgh
>> AB> ...
>>
>> i'm using bfd from current cvs, and it works fine for me. i haven't
>> build other binutils (objcopy, strip, ld) with it, though.
AB> Which means, probably, your patched version.
no, my patches to bfd had been checked in some time ago. they're in
main sources since 2000-01-10
AB> Again, this introduces yet another dependency from winsup to another module.
>> what if i change utils/Makefile.in to make it skip building of dumper
>> if it's prerequisites haven't been satisfied?
AB> Hmm ... IMHO this utility actually belongs more to binutils and not to core
AB> Cygwin. But as a temporary workaround - yes, please :-)
hmm. i think it's too platform-dependent to be included in binutils. it's
closer to strace, than to ld
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