[Bug libsframe/30588] please make --disable-libsframe work

[indu.bhagat at oracle dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30588

--- Comment #3 from Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat at oracle dot com> ---
(In reply to Tom Tromey from comment #2)
> (In reply to Indu Bhagat from comment #1)
> > What is the incentive to support --disable-libsframe ?
> 
> I have no need for it.
> 
> libsframe has a source dependency on libctf.
> So perhaps if libsframe is going to be required, this dependency
> could be lifted.
> I have a setup where I want to remove unnecessary sources from the tree.
> However, libctf cannot be removed due to this dependency; and libsframe
> cannot be removed because it is hard-coded in.

Yes, libsframe gets the byte swapping functionality from libctf/swap.h. Copying
it over to libsframe is an option...  But I wonder if there is any other
alternative - at that time, there will be three copies of bswap_NN functions in
binutils (elfcpp, libctf, libsframe).

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