From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21018 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2012 21:00:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 21004 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2012 21:00:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:00:25 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LXL00100OVC1R00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:59:18 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.135.112]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LXL0003WOYTMA60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:59:18 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:01:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW In-reply-to: To: ams@gnu.org Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <838vlfe0k9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hb03e9sx.fsf@gnu.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:25:11 -0500 > From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) > CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > `make install' is generally the way one should install GNU projects on > a end-user system, since that makes it possible to debug things (hence > why CFLAGS contains -g by default); install-strip is really for people > with little disk space. Well, an unstripped GDB weighs in at some 47MB, which is just too much. And you can't usefully debug it outside of the source tree anyway. I normally keep the unstripped binary with the sources, but install stripped ones.