Building gdb from source

[Dave Korn]

On 07 April 2006 16:19, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:08:31PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>   The point is, that a distro should have a consistent set of gcc, binutils
>> and gdb.  Since binutils and gdb live in the same repository, if you either
>> take a consistent snapshot of the cvs, or if you take gdb and binutils
>> releases that are roughly-contemporary, they're bound to be 'in-sync' FAPP.
> 
> This is not true.  There's no reason to believe that "roughly
> contemporary" is good enough.

  ?  Is this because releases could be coming from branches that were branched
at very different times?  Would it have been more reasonable if I had said
"releases that are based on roughly-contemporary branches"?



    cheers,
      DaveK
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