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Re: libiberty.a question
> >
> > Do most ppl just forcefully overwrite the file? ie. --force-overwrite
> > in dpkg?
>
> If you need to worry about that, whoever is packaging your sources is
> not doing it right. You should never have two packages installing
> their sources in the same directory.
OK. But GCC and binutils both install *by default* into /usr/local, so
this would be an example of a conflict, that is created by pkg
maintainers. Although I agree w/ your assessment of no two pkgs putting
the same file into the same location, but it does occur, and I was
wondering how the list members handle such an occurrence.
I am just going to install version of binutils into a unique directory.
Thank you for your time.
Drew