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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:00:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW
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To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:12:14 -0700
> 
> Eli> Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd,
> Eli> libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual?  The libraries
> Eli> are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere.  "make install"
> Eli> will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that
> Eli> could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream
> Eli> distributions.  How about removing these from "make install"?
> 
> For libiberty, gcc is the authoritative source.  So, ask there.

Let's start with DJ.  DJ, any comments on the libiberty part?