Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 16.1 released!

[Andrew Burgess via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

Joel Brobecker via Gdb-announce via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

>             GDB 16.1 released!

Bug https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32578 was reported
against the release.

Consider these steps:

  $ tar -xf gdb-16.1.tar.xz
  $ cd gdb-16.1
  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ ../configure
  $ make all

This will fail due to issues with the bfd docs; the pre-generated .texi
files are not symlinked into the build tree correctly.

The above is not how we recommend building GDB in gdb/README, our
suggestion is instead:

  $ tar -xf gdb-16.1.tar.xz
  $ cd gdb-16.1
  $ ./configure
  $ make all

This works just fine as the pre-generated .texi files are already in the
expected location, and no symlinks need to be created.

Additionally, in the first case, if you configure with an absolute path
then everything will work fine.

I've posted a fix to the bfd tree here:

  https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/40a989ffc81a9b07b5dd70f00521dd2171d7a200.1737465905.git.aburgess@redhat.com

If/when this is merged I do plan to back-port this to the gdb-16-branch,
but given the build following the suggested steps works fine, I'm not
sure this justifies a follow up release.  But I wanted to raise this for
discussion.

Thanks,
Andrew