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Installing gdb alone and into a distinct directory.
- To: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Installing gdb alone and into a distinct directory.
- From: "Daniel Manfis" <dany_100 at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:36:33 +0200
- Reply-to: dany_100 at yahoo dot com
Hello.
There is a following problem:
I decided to install newest gdb version from sources, so i downloaded
the latest snapshot, and wanted to compile it. But the problem is,
that source package includes a lot of other programs except gdb, all
of them already present on my PC - compiled and installed only
recently (2 weeks ago) from their snapshots (most of them came with
gcc's snapshot), and i don't have neither need nor space to recompile
everything afresh only because of gdb, and except - it takes much
more time.
Moreover, i have some special 'policies' for installing packages from
sources: as there is no way on Linux to uninstall source-compiled
packages cleanly, i always take advantage of '--prefix' switch, and
every package hierarchy is getting installed into a distinct
directory (for example, the '--prefix' for gdb is
/usr/local/lib/gdb-5.0, for gcc: /usr/local/lib/gcc-20010424, for
rxtv: /usr/local/lib/rxtv-2.6.3 etc.), so that if i want to remove a
package i don't have to hunt after it's files in /usr/local/bin,
/usr/local/lib etc. (and of course forgetting to delete a lot of
files belonging to that package while deleting other, critical files
which belong to other packages i didn't want to remove) - i just
delete relevant directory, and i am done.
But when i compile and install gdb, all the packages are getting
thrown into the same directory, and i have a lot of trouble to divide
between those packages.
I couldn't find any a way to configure and build gdb alone, into a
separate directory - i tried to run configure from 'gdb' directory
(./configure) specifying a prefix for gdb, and then a global
configure with other prefix directory (intending just to delete it
after all is done), but that didn't help - once again everything got
installed into the same directory.
Well, after all i *did* succeed to install everything, but it took
much more time and much, much more trouble, and i would have liked to
know how to prevent all this for the future.
So, to sum up a questions:
1)How it is possible to build gdb alone without building all the
other programs coming with it?
2)If it is impossible to build gdb alone, what could i do so that gdb
will get installed into a separate directory, specified as a prefix,
while all the others will get installed into other directory (or
every one into it's own custom directory)?
Daniel.
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