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Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:57:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW
- References: <83hb03e9sx.fsf@gnu.org> <m3k44zid81.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:12:14 -0700
>
> Eli> Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd,
> Eli> libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual? The libraries
> Eli> are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere. "make install"
> Eli> will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that
> Eli> could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream
> Eli> distributions. How about removing these from "make install"?
>
> For libiberty, gcc is the authoritative source. So, ask there.
Let's start with DJ. DJ, any comments on the libiberty part?