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Re: setup gdb && setup binutils problem.


On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:30:28AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:04:16PM -0500, James Dumser wrote:
>>>On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:05:51 -0700 (PDT), Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>>First, my /usr/info/dir file was overwritten.  The new file of course
>>>>only had binutils.  :(.  Suggestion for future package releases is to
>>>>remove the /usr/info/dir file if it exists before creating the tarball.
>>>
>>>Agreed.  Any file that is not specific to a given package (only) should
>>>not be included in the package tarball.
>>
>>I've added an "rm usr/info/dir" to my "mknetrel" script.  Hopefully
>>other contributors will be willing to do this, too.
>
>Thanks.  Hmm...  is the mknetrel released via CVS?

Nope.  It's just something homebrewed.  It's not quite generic enough
yet to release.  I have been trying to accomodate any gotchas like
"delete the dir" file in this script so that I don't have to remember to
do this.  Until recently, it didn't actually create info files since it
didn't do a "make install-info".

It's a good idea to make this available under CVS.  I just have to weigh
the emotional hit of seeing the inevitable "I don't see why mknetrel
doesn't..." or "I'm trying to use mknetrel to download my files and it
doesn't work..." reports.

It's been painfully obvious lately that every bit of software that gets
released generates a backwash of some sort and there are only so many
hours in the day for dealing with this kind of stuff.

cgf

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