From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13566 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2004 20:30:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13497 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 20:30:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Sep 2004 20:30:23 -0000 Received: from zaretski (pns03-199-230.inter.net.il [80.230.199.230]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CLL23402 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:30:06 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:30:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Michael Chastain Message-ID: <01c4912b$Blat.v2.2.2$b16abc40@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: pgilliam@us.ibm.com, cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, drow@false.org In-reply-to: <41377FBA.nail7AG11C5P9@mindspring.com> (message from Michael Chastain on Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:58 -0400) Subject: Re: Problem building GDB on Power64 Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <200409020920.53975.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <20040902172158.GA15192@nevyn.them.org> <200409021052.04994.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <20040902175859.GA16559@nevyn.them.org> <41376B47.70405@gnu.org> <41377FBA.nail7AG11C5P9@mindspring.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:58 -0400 > From: Michael Chastain > 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.