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Re: --disable-install-libiberty and libiberty.a
- From: Matt Burgess <matthew at linuxfromscratch dot org>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:40:50 +0000
- Subject: Re: --disable-install-libiberty and libiberty.a
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On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 06:13 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Matt Burgess
> <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> >
> > 1) We currently assume that binutils is 'upstream' for libiberty
> > development, and should therefore 'own' the libiberty.a file. Is that
> > assumption correct?
>
> No. The master sources for libiberty are in the GCC repository.
OK, thanks, that's useful to know.
> > 2) The --disable-install-libiberty configure switch for GCC does *not*
> > suppress the installation of libiberty.a (see also [0] and [1]).
>
> I agree that --disable-install-libiberty should prevent installing
> libiberty.a. This would then be a GCC bug.
Thanks for confirming. This is now
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56780.
Regards,
Matt.