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Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW


> 2. "make install-strip" fails in readline/, in sim/, and in gdb/:
[...]
> Finally, a question: Why are we installing libraries (libbfd,
> libopcodes, libiberty) and the standards.info manual?  The libraries
> are not part of GDB, we import them from elsewhere.  "make install"
> will happily overwrite existing installation of these libraries that
> could potentially be newer, coming from their respective upstream
> distributions.  How about removing these from "make install"?

We could side-step these issues by documenting in the README that
GDB should be installed using "make -C gdb install", or "make -C
gdb install-strip". This is what I personally do.

-- 
Joel


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