Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13T12:40:56Z

> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:14:49 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > diff -u -r1.49 README
> > --- gdb/README 4 Jan 2012 04:11:38 -0000 1.49
> > +++ gdb/README 13 Jan 2012 10:52:12 -0000
> > @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
> > cd gdb-VERSION
> > ./configure
> > make
> > + cd gdb
> > + make install (or "make install-strip")
> > +
> > +Alternatively, install with
> > +
> > cp gdb/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb (or wherever you want)
>
> Do we really want to preserve the alternate solution? We have more
> and more support files that come with GDB, so it's less and less
> likely to install a fully-functional GDB. (it is fine with me if
> we want to preserve it, just wanted to mention it).

I agree; I was surprised to see that in README to begin with. If no
one objects, I will remove that alternative.