On Mon, Mar 17, at 07:49 Randy McMurchy wrote: > Is GDB actually a build-time dependency? Just curious.
Strictly speaking? No. But see, ... checking for dbx... no checking for gdb... yes checking for sdb... no ... It does look for a debugger (one of the three), which needed for the "DEBUGGER variable in the flea shell script (is a tool that is being used to submit bugs). [ag][469](~t)sed -n '/^DEBUGGER/p' =flea DEBUGGER=/usr/bin/gdb Of course this (variable) can be changed at later time manually. But you *need* a debugger. So strictly speaking is a runtime dependency, although the configure script it seeks for gdb. Personally I wouldn't bother more with it, but if you want we can add a pair of parenthesis besides the dependency, explaining that is needed for the flea script. If you ask me about the other two debuggers (dbx, sdb) though, both seems to be 'dead' projects. > All three of these should be fixed to include the word "the" before > "header cache backend". Thanks, I'll fix them later. But just to know: You always have my authorization to fix my typos or such. -- http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Hacking -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
