Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Joseph S. Myers
2012-01-10T20:28:56Z

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Eli> Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd,
> Eli> libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual? The libraries
> Eli> are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere. "make install"
> Eli> will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that
> Eli> could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream
> Eli> distributions. How about removing these from "make install"?
>
> For libiberty, gcc is the authoritative source. So, ask there.

My view is that libiberty should not be installed (unless
--enable-install-libiberty or --enable-install-libbfd). (These options
already exist; it's just some defaults that are installing too much; maybe
in some cases the options only control the headers not the libraries.)

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ImprovementProjects#Toplevel_configuration_and_build_system

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