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authorJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>2002-06-28 19:16:49 +0000
committerJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>2002-06-28 19:16:49 +0000
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parent2001-06-28 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> (diff)
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2001-06-28 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
* buildc.t, gdb.t: Per PR54, updated to reflect multiple compression schemes including bzip2.
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@c
@subsection Unarchive the GDB Distribution
-Use the following commands to unarchive the GDB distribution:
+Unarchive the compressed tar files for GDB using the appropriate
+command based upon the compression program used for the source
+distribution you downloaded.
+
+@example
+cd tools
+tar xzf ../archive/@{GDB-UNTAR}.tar.gz # for gzip'ed gdb
+tar xIf ../archive/@{GDB-UNTAR}.tar.bz2 # for bzip'ed gdb
+@endif
+
@example
cd tools