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Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, monaka at monami-software dot com
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:50:43 +0300
- Subject: Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb.
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, monaka@monami-software.com
> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400
>
> > Besides, why do that? The Info manual does not include any
> > system-specific information, it is valid for all supported systems.
> > So I see no reason to put it into a system-dependent place or call it
> > by system-dependent name.
>
> it's not system-dependent, but it is version dependent. reading the
> documentation for the native version can be wildly inaccurate than the
> documentation for the cross version. it's probably less of an issue for gdb
> as features/flags don't change wildly quickly, but it makes a huge difference
> for gcc (e.g. 4.7 to 4.8 to 4.9).
As I wrote elsewhere, Info doesn't support different versions of the
same manual installed on the same system, without some non-trivial
tinkering.