From: Fernando Nasser Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:03:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: 2000-12-22 Fernando Nasser X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bec71058e4d7f5bfa8ff09dcf7060aa87ac2b115;p=binutils-gdb.git 2000-12-22 Fernando Nasser * README: Suggest building in an empty directory. --- 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 + + * README: Suggest building in an empty directory. + 2000-12-21 Mark Kettenis * 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 + /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.)