From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21859 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2012 03:25:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 21843 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2012 03:25:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:25:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E132BAEF0; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:25:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id os0DULaV98z3; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:25:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EAF2BAECF; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:25:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8254C145615; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:24:41 +0400 (RET) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:32:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW Message-ID: <20120111032441.GE31383@adacore.com> References: <83hb03e9sx.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83hb03e9sx.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 > 2. "make install-strip" fails in readline/, in sim/, and in gdb/: [...] > Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd, > libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual? The libraries > are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere. "make install" > will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that > could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream > distributions. How about removing these from "make install"? We could side-step these issues by documenting in the README that GDB should be installed using "make -C gdb install", or "make -C gdb install-strip". This is what I personally do. -- Joel