On 10/21/2010 10:29 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Jie Zhang<jie@codesourcery.com>  wrote:
>> I don't think it's really necessary to fix that. binutils and gcc also don't
>> allow "make -j4 install" to directly after "configure". "make -j4 all
>> install" also fails for binutils and gcc. I think it's already an convention
>> that those software are built with
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> Do we really need the effort to fix GDB?
>
> fwiw, I think the answer is yes.
>
> Note that we don't need to consider ./configure ; make -j4 install.
>
> The issue arises with a simple "$EDITOR foo.c ; make -j4 install".

Reasonable although I never used it before. This is an updated patch 
which does that. It fixes it by passing FLAGS_TO_PASS when recursively 
make install-only. It fixes my issue. I also tested by touching a source 
file and do "make -j4 install" in gdb directory. It behaves as expected. 
OK now?


Regards,
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Jie Zhang
CodeSourcery