From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23641 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2006 01:07:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 23502 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2006 01:07:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from venus.cis.sac.accd.edu (HELO cis.sac.accd.edu) (209.184.112.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:07:23 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.75] (adsl-64-216-16-33.dsl.snantx.swbell.net [64.216.16.33]) by cis.sac.accd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3717FhQ001817 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 20:07:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4435BB43.1030804@linuxfromscratch.org> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:16:00 -0000 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060225 SeaMonkey/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Building gdb from source Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00085.txt.bz2 I like to build packages from source. When I build gdb-6.4: ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install gdb's Makefile places the following files in /usr/lib: libbfd.a libbfd.la libiberty.a libopcodes.a libopcodes.la The problem is that these files already exist from binutils-2.16.1. Is there any reason to prefer the libraries from binutils over gdb or vice versa? I believe this could be a problem as the binutils libraries include dynamic libraries that could be out of sync with the gdb static libraries and that the gdb .la files do not recognize the dynamic libraries at all. -- Bruce Dubbs