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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
Cc: pgilliam@us.ibm.com, cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com,
	drow@false.org
Subject: Re: Problem building GDB on Power64
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c4912b$Blat.v2.2.2$b16abc40@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41377FBA.nail7AG11C5P9@mindspring.com> (message from Michael Chastain on Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:58 -0400)

> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:58 -0400
> From: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, drow@false.org
> 
> Here's an idea from gcc:
> 
> gcc has a directory named INSTALL with a file 'specific.html', which has
> info organized by target.  If we had a file like that, then that would
> be the natural place for describing build choices like -m32 and -m64.
> 
> It would also be a good place for the section of PROBLEMS that
> are about build failures and their workarounds.

I think PROBLEMS is the wrong place for this, unless there's a small
number of platforms with specific build problems.

Why not put this in the INSTALL file?  That's where installation
instructions belong, IMHO.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 16:23 Paul Gilliam
2004-09-02 17:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-09-02 17:54   ` Paul Gilliam
2004-09-02 17:59     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-09-02 18:51       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-02 20:17         ` Michael Chastain
2004-09-02 20:30           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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