From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7548 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2006 15:19:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 7540 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2006 15:19:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:18:58 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FRsje-00063K-Lf; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:18:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:32:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Dave Korn Cc: 'Bruce Dubbs' , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Building gdb from source Message-ID: <20060407151854.GA23220@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Korn , 'Bruce Dubbs' , gdb@sourceware.org References: <44367EE8.4090305@linuxfromscratch.org> <000801c65a55$21ffa580$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c65a55$21ffa580$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:08:31PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > The point is, that a distro should have a consistent set of gcc, binutils > and gdb. Since binutils and gdb live in the same repository, if you either > take a consistent snapshot of the cvs, or if you take gdb and binutils > releases that are roughly-contemporary, they're bound to be 'in-sync' FAPP. This is not true. There's no reason to believe that "roughly contemporary" is good enough. But it completely fails to matter. Very little uses these libraries and most of what does will work with both. If you install binutils with shared libraries, then you should use the binutils copy; otherwise use either. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery