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Re: Problem building GDB on Power64
> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:58 -0400
> From: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, drow@false.org
>
> Here's an idea from gcc:
>
> gcc has a directory named INSTALL with a file 'specific.html', which has
> info organized by target. If we had a file like that, then that would
> be the natural place for describing build choices like -m32 and -m64.
>
> It would also be a good place for the section of PROBLEMS that
> are about build failures and their workarounds.
I think PROBLEMS is the wrong place for this, unless there's a small
number of platforms with specific build problems.
Why not put this in the INSTALL file? That's where installation
instructions belong, IMHO.