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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu>
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Subject: Re: doesn't work for me (was Re: problems building gdb on FreeBSD 4.4)
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:23:08PM -0800, Dorr H. Clark wrote:

[...]
> On my system, a bare "make" with no arguments 
> in that directory provokes:
> 
> make: no target to make
> 
> which is the normal message when there's no makefile
> among the standard makefile names.
> 
> Ditto for the gdb subdirectory beneath it.
> 
> I left this detail out of my summary.  I also presume 
> my shell choice makes no difference, but I'm using bash 2.05.
> 
> If you're implying there's something wrong with my installation, 
> as in I should have a Makefile in that directory, 
> any tips on possible errors would be appreciated.

Hmm. Try:

	# cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb
	# make

and see whether that improves things.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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