From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17950 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2012 20:28:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 17938 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2012 20:28:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:41 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1RkiJD-0001aL-VL from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:28:40 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk ([172.16.63.104]) by EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:37 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1RkiJB-0001I1-68; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:55:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Tom Tromey cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <83hb03e9sx.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Tom Tromey wrote: > 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. My view is that libiberty should not be installed (unless --enable-install-libiberty or --enable-install-libbfd). (These options already exist; it's just some defaults that are installing too much; maybe in some cases the options only control the headers not the libraries.) http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ImprovementProjects#Toplevel_configuration_and_build_system -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com