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Re: bfd.h installation location

* Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> on Sat, May 11, 2002:

> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:15:38PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> > Today I noticed that bfd.h gets installed under $prefix/include instead
> 
> I question whether we should be installing any of these files by
> default.  Which projects using libbfd don't provide their own
> copy of bfd?
> 

A lot of smaller, "single-target" applications do, mostly loader utilities
for embedded platforms.  Also a few disassemblers.  I don't see why the
installed libbfd should be removed if it's currently not breaking anything.
Including bfd in these projects would be overkill.

M. R.

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