Date:	Mon, 15 May 2000 10:35:09 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	GDB 5.0 is in pretest
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.1000515101903.9209A-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

It looks like GDB 5.0 should be released VSN.  At this point, I'd like to 
ask people to download the latest pretest and try to build it on their 
system, whether Windows or DOS.  The pretest is available here:

  ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2

Note that this is a bzip2 archive, so you will need bunzip2 to unpack it.

Also note that, due to file-name nuisances, the unpacking procedure is a 
bit complicated.  Please unpack the archive exactly as described below
(this description is also in the gdb/config/djgpp/README file), otherwise 
the configuration script will refuse to run and you might have other 
problems down the line.

Please report any problems here.  Thanks!

To unpack the archive:

   bunzip2 -c gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2
   djtar -x -p -o gdb-4.95.1/djunpack.bat gdb-4.95.1.tar > djunpack.bat
   djunpack gdb-4.95.1.tar 

I suggest to read the file gdb/config/djgpp/README after unpacking.

To configure:

   cd gdb-4.95.1
   sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh

(The djconfig.sh script uses GNU `find', so make sure you have Findutils 
installed.)  The configure script will print a warning message about the 
Tcl directory not being found; this is normal.

To build and install:

   make
   make info
   make install prefix=${DJDIR}
   make install-info prefix=${DJDIR}

During compilation, you might see a couple of warnings from the compiler 
in the bfd directory (about unused arguments and comparison between 
signed and unsigned); this is normal.  The linker will complain about 
line number overflow; this is also expected.  Except for these, please 
report any warning/error messages you see.

Of course, if the built binary behaves abnormally, please report that as 
well.

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