Trying to install binutils-gdb

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

On 9/28/23 01:42, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> This text continues a section that describes how to build from a
> source *tarball*; the "Unpacking and installation" and "When you
> unpack the binutils archive file..."
> 
>>    If you only want to build the binutils and not GDB as well then
>>    you can add a configure option to disable GDB.  This may help
>>    reduce the need for extra libraries to be installed.  ie:
>>
>> 	./configure --disable-gdb
> 
> ...so this step would then be confusing.
> 
> IMHO it needs to say something like "if you build from a
> checkout of the binutils-gdb git, you may also want to build
> only binutils and exclude gdb, like so:" [...]

That makes sense.  I have checked in the following updated patch instead.

Cheers
   Nick

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