and here the second patch: LDFLAGS were not propagated from gdb to gdb/gdbserver. Consequently "make LDFLAGS=-s" did produced unstripped gdbreplay and gdbserver binaries. All this wouldn't be needed, if the gdb distribution were to support "make install-strip" as most modern packages do. Unfortunately this feature has not (yet?) found its way into the cygnus type source trees (nor has DESTDIR support). Peter Breitenlohner