Collisions between binutils and gdb

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 24 11:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 23 14:25, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On x86, both binutils and gdb provide the BFD headers, but only the
> > former provides the libs.
> > 
> > On x86_64, both binutils and gdb provides the BFD headers *and* libs.
> > 
> > AFAIK these should *only* be provided by binutils, with the caveat
> > that libiberty needs a patch to install properly per my comments in
> > PR56780.
> 
> I uploaded a new gdb-7.6-2 package with a new cygport file to ignore the
> overlapping headers and libs.
> 
> 64 bit binutils -5 doesn't have the problem from PR56780, and since it's
> ok in terms of the include and lib files I just kept it that way.

Btw., a PING in PR56780 and perhaps on the binutils list may be prudent.
There wasn't much of a reaction on your comment...


Corinna

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