On 3 May 2010 20:28, Kai Tietz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Dmitrijs,
>
> 2010/5/3 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]>:
>> is anyone building binutils with --enable-shared? cause utils become
>> ~10MiB from 54MiB for the linux -> mingw cross for one target arch?
>
> I know that shared build of binutils is possible, but I never tried it
> to built it that way. The issue you can have by this (especially on
> windows) is, that for example the libiberty provided by binutils isn't
> not necessarily the same as used by gdb, or gcc. This can lead to
> failures hard to diagnose. Therefore I avoid this. But I am interested
> in you finding about this.
>
libiberty is brain dead about transistient paths i tell gcc to build
with sysroot, so it finds everything relative to it's binary location
so I assume you can move the whole tree and you would still be able to
compile without even distributing liberty.
> Regards,
> Kai
>
>
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