The following reply was made to PR gdb/2336; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Larry McGhaw <lmcghaw@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: gdb-gnats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gdb/2336: gdb 6.7 release unable to load elf symbol tables
onsolaris
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:20:54 -0400
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:49:10PM -0700, Larry McGhaw wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't think I explained the issue properly.
>
> elfread.c does get compiled and linked into gdb.exe .. The problem is
> that the makefile in the GDB directory
> dynamically builds init.c by scanning a list of source files searching
> for tokens.
> Elfread is missing from the list when dynamically building init.c, but
> it is present when building gdb.exe.
I do not see how that is possible. The same variable builds it and
includes it in init.c. If it isn't in CONFIG_OBS, it should not be
built.
> It took me a while to track this down but it looks like it should be an
> easy problem to fix.
Not unless you give me enough information to figure out why it isn't
in CONFIG_OBS. If you don't see a problem in gdb/config.log, please
send it to the bug.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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