[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-03 Thread earnie at users dot sourceforge.net
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #10 from Earnie Boyd --- What about my comment that the bug is the private libraries install into public space? If the private libraries are supposed to remain private why do they have an install target? If you install into publi

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-03 Thread ian at airs dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 Ian Lance Taylor changed: What|Removed |Added CC||ian at airs dot com --- Comment #9

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-03 Thread raphael.manfredi at gmail dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #8 from Raphael Manfredi --- As a side note, all this started with the "config.h" protection because of the HAVE_STRSIZE check in the "bfd.h" header, to conditionally redefine the CONCAT4() macro... Macro which is never used in "b

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread vapier at gentoo dot org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 Mike Frysinger changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC|

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread raphael.manfredi at gmail dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #6 from Raphael Manfredi --- On my Debian machine, "dpkg -L binutils-dev" yields the following files: /usr/include/plugin-api.h /usr/include/bfdlink.h /usr/include/bfd.h /usr/include/libiberty.h /usr/include/ansidecl.h /usr/includ

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread earnie at users dot sourceforge.net
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #5 from Earnie Boyd --- Gdb also installs libbfd, libiberty and libopcodes all three are private libraries. Only libbfd adds a guard to protect against not having an autoconf config.h included before it. Why are these private dev

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread sch...@linux-m68k.org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #4 from Andreas Schwab --- BFD has no ABI nor API stability. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread raphael.manfredi at gmail dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #3 from Raphael Manfredi --- Why limit the audience of the library? I fail to see the point of requiring people to go through contorsions to be able to use it when all you need to do is generate a "bfd.h" header clean of any depen

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread earnie at users dot sourceforge.net
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 Earnie Boyd changed: What|Removed |Added CC||earnie at users dot sourceforge.ne

[Bug binutils/15920] not suitable as a general-purpose header

2013-09-02 Thread sch...@linux-m68k.org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15920 --- Comment #1 from Andreas Schwab --- libbfd is not a general-purpose library, but intented to be embedded into the sources of the consuming applications (like GDB and binutils). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC lis