[Oneiric] perf: Fix libbfd usage

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu Aug 18 11:30:03 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:36:06PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 18.08.2011 11:43, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:24:33PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >> From the discussion on the mailing list this not only is a matter
> >> of having libbfd not linked dynamically but not at all (the licence
> >> seems incompatible). So we probably should start to remove it for
> >> Oneiric and follow up with older releases...
> >>
> >> This changes the used demangling function from the one in libbfd to
> >> the one in libiberty (which is available only as a static library)
> >> but according to Ben, there is no difference. And it seems Redhat
> >> also had to go that way.
> > 
> > Does this mean we can revert the previous change?
> > 
> > -apw
> 
> We could if we did. AFAICS current Oneiric master-next only has one patch about
> that issue and that is the one defining HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE. Sorry, there might
> have been confusion because I reposted the patch as it seemed to be lost in the
> lengthy discussion.

Ahh.  In that case it looks sane and simple:

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw




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