Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Joel Brobecker
2012-01-11T03:25:24Z

> 2. "make install-strip" fails in readline/, in sim/, and in gdb/:
[...]
> Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd,
> libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual? The libraries
> are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere. "make install"
> will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that
> could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream
> distributions. How about removing these from "make install"?

We could side-step these issues by documenting in the README that
GDB should be installed using "make -C gdb install", or "make -C
gdb install-strip". This is what I personally do.

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Joel