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Re: Building gdb from source

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
Cc: 'Bruce Dubbs' <bdubbs at linuxfromscratch dot org>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:18:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Building gdb from source
References: <44367EE8.4090305@linuxfromscratch.org> <000801c65a55$21ffa580$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

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

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