Build GDB with static libexpat

Signed-off-by: Alice Ziuziakowska <[email protected]>

Author: ziuziakowska

build-binutils.sh

@@ -60,13 +60,11 @@ cd build
 
 mkdir -p "$dist_dir"
 
-# NOTE: We don't want to require `libexpat` to be dynamically linked.
-# It turns out to be quite hard to statically link *only* `libexpat`.
 ../configure \
-  --target "$target" \
+  --target="$target" \
   --program-prefix="$target-" \
-  --prefix "$dist_dir" \
-  --with-expat=no
+  --prefix="$dist_dir" \
+  --with-libexpat-type=static
 
 make -j "$(nproc)"
 make install

prepare-host.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ set -x
 # Repository for the `gh` GitHub CLI tool used for creating releases.
 dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cli.github.com/packages/rpm/gh-cli.repo
 
+# Repository for expat-static
+dnf install -y almalinux-release-devel
+
 dnf install -y \
   sudo \
   gh \
@@ -27,4 +30,5 @@ dnf install -y \
   python36 \
   zlib-devel \
   zlib-static \
-  libffi-devel
+  libffi-devel \
+  expat-static