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| author | Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> | 2000-12-22 15:03:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> | 2000-12-22 15:03:10 +0000 |
| commit | ad6da35f893609f6c6300fd55af7bea539262131 (patch) | |
| tree | e653a3019a0c6fb8956a6610116e6e3f87caaab9 | |
| parent | 048a58cfc45135ff723f157b0744176f9f989169 (diff) | |
| download | gdb-ad6da35f893609f6c6300fd55af7bea539262131.tar.gz | |
2000-12-22 Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
* README: Suggest building in an empty directory.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/README | 15 |
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 99aeb486750..21f60fed44f 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2000-12-22 Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> + + * README: Suggest building in an empty directory. + 2000-12-21 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> * i386-tdep.c: Add missing ')' in comment. diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index cd8c6c2da67..c718b6f5b29 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -35,13 +35,26 @@ called `gdb-5.0', which contains: config-ml.in gdb missing mpw-install config.guess include mkinstalldirs opcodes -To build GDB, you can just do: +You can build GDB right in the source directory: cd gdb-5.0 ./configure make cp gdb/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb (or wherever you want) +However, we recommend that an empty directory be used instead. +This way you do not clutter your source tree with binary files +and will be able to create different builds with different +configuration options. + +You can build GDB in any empty build directory: + + + mkdir build + cd build + <full path to your sources>/gdb-5.0/configure + make + (Building GDB with DJGPP tools for MS-DOS/MS-Windows is slightly different; see the file gdb-5.0/gdb/config/djgpp/README for details.) |