From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from arjuna.pair.com (arjuna.pair.com [209.68.5.131]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C0C43858402 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:42:32 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 3C0C43858402 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=bitrange.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bitrange.com Received: by arjuna.pair.com (Postfix, from userid 3006) id BF5788A64F; Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arjuna.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE148A63B; Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:42:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@arjuna.pair.com To: Nick Clifton cc: jacob navia , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Trying to install binutils-gdb In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20.16 (BSF 172 2016-09-29) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: mailmunge 3.11 on 209.68.5.131 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > > I downloaded the new version of binutils. > > To my surprise, it doesn?t work any more, failing with a message that I > > should get the GMP package. > > This is really a documentation issue. I assume that you > were following the instructions in the binutils/README file > on how to unpack and install the binutils ? I am thinking > of changing that section of the file to read like this: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > [...] > To build binutils you will need a C99 compliant compiler and library. > You can just do: This text continues a section that describes how to build from a source *tarball*; the "Unpacking and installation" and "When you unpack the binutils archive file..." > If you only want to build the binutils and not GDB as well then > you can add a configure option to disable GDB. This may help > reduce the need for extra libraries to be installed. ie: > > ./configure --disable-gdb ...so this step would then be confusing. IMHO it needs to say something like "if you build from a checkout of the binutils-gdb git, you may also want to build only binutils and exclude gdb, like so:" [...] brgds, H-P