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To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:45:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: Problem RHIDE + Geforce 2 MX-Card
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On 2 Feb 2001, at 13:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
> > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:32:12 +0200
> > > 
> > > Also, if you only need the GDB library, libgdb.a, you can simply
> > > download the file v2gnu/gdb500a.zip, which already includes libgdb.a,
> > > ready to be used.
> > 
> > Unfortunatelly it not the same library. Building gdb/libgdb.a is rather 
> > recent invention (from gdb-5.0). To build RHIDE library with same 
> > name were used earlier. Perhaps it would be nice to convert RHIDE
> > to use v2gnu/gdb500a.zip instead
> 
> Why do you need to do anything?  libgdb.a includes all the code of
> GDB, so why cannot RHIDE simply use it?  If RHIDE needs a few more
> functions, you could supply them as a separate smaller library.

It's so for a rather long time. libgdb/libgdb.a generated when building
RHIDE includes not only stuff that goes into the library with the same 
name for gdb but also from other libraries (libbfd.a ,...). I understand it's
ugly (especially generating header file for this library ...), but I haven't
tried to improve it.

Andris