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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Cc: palves@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, yao@codesourcery.com,
	       gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204181603.q3IG3tbr019919@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120418154041.GA17262@host2.jankratochvil.net> (message from	Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:40:41 +0200)

> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:40:41 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> 
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:34 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On 04/18/2012 01:51 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:40:18 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > >> > This is no different from src/gdb/ vs build/gdb.
> > > I (and I guess most of the users) always use just in-src-tree-build with src/
> > > and no separate build/ .  
> > 
> > Eh.  Why would you prefer doing things that way?
> 
> This is offtopic but:
> 
> After 6 years I still have not figured out a single reason why to do
> out-of-src-tree build.  It is difficult to switch directories back and forth
> between editing .c files and running make.

1. The ability to build native debuggers for mutiple platforms from a
   single (NFS mounted) source tree.

2. The ability to wipe a single build with a simple rm -rf command.

Now can we please go back to discuss diffs to actually improve GDB?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11  8:41 [PATCH] Link gnulib in gdbserver Yao Qi
2012-04-11 18:11 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-12  8:14   ` Yao Qi
2012-04-12 20:26     ` Doug Evans
2012-04-13  0:47       ` Yao Qi
2012-04-13 11:20         ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-13 11:24           ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-13 12:01           ` Yao Qi
2012-04-13 13:23             ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-14  3:40 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-14  3:52   ` Yao Qi
2012-04-15 19:42     ` [patch] Fix in-src-tree builds by gdbserver/gnulib/ copy [Re: [PATCH] Link gnulib in gdbserver.] Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-16  9:42       ` Yao Qi
2012-04-16 10:11         ` [patch#2] Fix in-src-tree builds by gdbserver/gnulib/ copy Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-16 10:51           ` Yao Qi
2012-04-16 11:32       ` [patch] Fix in-src-tree builds by gdbserver/gnulib/ copy [Re: [PATCH] Link gnulib in gdbserver.] Pedro Alves
2012-04-16 18:51         ` Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR Pedro Alves
2012-04-16 18:35           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-17 16:55             ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-17 17:27               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-17 18:55                 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-17 23:52                   ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-18  9:16                     ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18  9:32                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 10:52                         ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 12:34                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 12:52                             ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 13:04                               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 13:18                                 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 15:52                                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 16:04                                     ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 16:09                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 16:16                                         ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 16:09                                       ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-18 16:04                                     ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2012-04-18 16:14                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-18 17:05                                         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-18 15:04                           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-19 15:46                             ` gnulib/ -> gnulib/import/ Pedro Alves
2012-04-16 20:06           ` Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR Tom Tromey
2012-04-16 20:36             ` Doug Evans
2012-04-16 20:41               ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-16 22:57                 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-16 23:19                   ` Stan Shebs
2012-04-17 12:16                     ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-17 15:16                       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-17 10:29           ` Yao Qi
2012-04-17 10:49             ` Pedro Alves

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