Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13T10:55:19Z

> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:24:41 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > 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.

I like this alternative the best. Is the patch below OK to install,
including on the branch?

Index: gdb/README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/README,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 README
--- gdb/README 4 Jan 2012 04:11:38 -0000 1.49
+++ gdb/README 13 Jan 2012 10:52:12 -0000
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
cd gdb-VERSION
./configure
make
+ cd gdb
+ make install (or "make install-strip")
+
+Alternatively, install with
+
cp gdb/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb (or wherever you want)

However, we recommend that an empty directory be used instead.
@@ -52,7 +57,8 @@
cd build
<full path to your sources>/gdb-VERSION/configure
make
- cp gdb/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb (or wherever you want)
+ cd gdb
+ make install (or "make install-strip")

(Building GDB with DJGPP tools for MS-DOS/MS-Windows is slightly
different; see the file gdb-VERSION/gdb/config/djgpp/README for details.)
@@ -236,6 +242,15 @@
configuration files for every directory level underneath (unless
you tell it not to, with the `--norecursion' option).

+ After the build finishes successfully, you can install the built
+GDB like this:
+
+ cd gdb
+ make install
+
+ If you want to install a GDB binary stripped of debugging symbols,
+type "make install-strip" instead of the second line.
+
You can install `gdb' anywhere; it has no hardwired paths. However,
you should make sure that the shell on your path (named by the `SHELL'
environment variable) is publicly readable. Remember that GDB uses the