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Re: [rfc] README, doc/gdb.texinfo: warn against '.../configure/gdb-N.N/gdb/configure'
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: mec at shout dot net
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:57:29 +0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] README, doc/gdb.texinfo: warn against '.../configure/gdb-N.N/gdb/configure'
- References: <200301151843.h0FIhec28500@duracef.shout.net>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:43:40 -0600
> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
>
> Here is the first draft of some new doco about the difference
> between '.../gdb-5.3/configure' and '.../gdb-5.3/gdb/configure'.
Thanks.
> I don't expect this to get approved on the first round, although
> that would be nice.
This is approved, with the following comments/requests:
> +You should run the @code{configure} script from the top directory in
> +the source tree, the @file{gdb-@var{version-number}} directory. If you
> +run @code{configure} from one of the subordinate directories, you will
> +configure only that directory.
I sugegst to use ``subdirectory'' instead of ``subordinate
directory'', like this:
You should run the @code{configure} script from the top directory in
the source tree, the @file{gdb-@var{version-number}} directory. If you
run @code{configure} from one of its subdirectories, you will
configure only that subdirectory.
> +In particular, if you run the first @code{configure} from the
> +@file{gdb} subordinate directory of the @file{gdb-@var{version-number}}
> +directory, you will omit the configuration of @file{bfd},
> +@file{readline}, and other subordinate directories.
Here, I suggest to use ``sibling directories'' as the collective term
for `bfd', `readline' and other subdirectories of gdb-VERSION.
It would also be nice to have some index entry for this text. For
example:
@cindex configuring @value{GDBN}, and source tree subdirectories