Re: [PATCH] [GDB 18] gdb/configure: fix string quoting in AC_MSG_WARN and AC_MSG_ERROR
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: Andrew Burgess <[email protected]> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, > Andrew Burgess <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:02:06 +0100 > > If / when approve I plan to push this to both master and gdb-18-branch. Thanks. I have a question about this below. > Now when configuring with > --enable-binary-file-formats='coff,xcoff,elf,macho' on a target that > doesn't support Mach-O, e.g. GNU/Linux, the configure will stop like > this: > > checking for ELF support in BFD... yes > checking for library containing dlopen... (cached) none required > checking for Mach-O support in BFD... no > configure: error: Mach-O support was requested, but BFD does not support it > make: *** [Makefile:13461: configure-gdb] Error 1 Hmm... so building with Mach-O support on GNU/Linux and MS-Windows is not possible at all? I'm not sure I understand the "BFD does not support it" part of the error message: shouldn't BFD that is compiled as part of GDB be configured to support Mach-O when GDB is configured with --enable-binary-file-formats='coff,xcoff,elf,macho'? Or what am I missing? Thanks.