Re: New unapproved external dependency?

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le jeudi 16 août 2007 à 20:09 +0300, Fernando Herrera a écrit :
> On 8/16/07, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, unless things have changed recently, Google Breakpad in bug-buddy
> > is still linux x86 only and it is the one requiring this dependency.
> >
> > I'd like it to be optional, so we could at least build bug-buddy on
> > x86-64..
> 
> No, actually libelf is used to determine if debug symbols are present
> (and use bug-buddy to launch gdb) or not (and dumps a breakpad
> minidump).

So, it should be a hard dependency ?

> I have the code to build google-breakpad conditionally to the platform
> (right now only Linux x86 and Solaris x86, and soon it would be
> buildable also on both x86-64). I'll commit it soon.

This is excellent news.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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