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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdbreplay not installed
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F38B0A.9090506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnykz8yg.fsf@gnu.org>

On 02/06/2014 01:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:56:50 +0000
>> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> On 02/06/2014 12:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> I noticed that gdbreplay is built, but not installed by "make
>>> install".  Is that on purpose?
>>
>> Yeah, it's always been that way AFAIK.  That's because that's really
>> a maintainer tool, not a user tool.  I don't think gdbreplay is
>> even documented in the user manual?
> 
> It is mentioned in gdbserver/README.
> 
> If it is not for users, perhaps it shouldn't be built by the default
> Make target?

Personally, from a maintenance perspective, I prefer that
it's always built.  The tool is quite small and quick to
build, and this way helps avoid potential bit rot.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-06 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 12:50 Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-06 12:56 ` Pedro Alves
2014-02-06 13:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-06 13:16     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2014-02-06 13:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-02-06 18:04   ` Pedro Alves
2014-02-06 18:42     ` Mike Frysinger
2014-02-06 19:14       ` Pedro Alves

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