Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-10T21:00:41Z

> 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.