Add information about where to find GDB, and warn against --no-debug option

to configure.bat.

diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 41522eef97dad28e5f5c6b40ef8b63e377400634..03584981bf52b34fdc2c36a6af0d4ac450c0c905 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-05-22  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+       * INSTALL: Add information about where to find GDB, and warn
+       against --no-debug option to configure.bat.
+
 2007-05-19  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
        * INSTALL: Fix URL of EmacsW32 site where building with image

diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 7449323ace1e907341224ddf76ca9c8e7c4cb8a0..489941e1578b2c1dbacd64acccb66251d9885434 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@
   To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available,
   simply change to the `nt' subdirectory and run `configure.bat' with no
   options.  To see what options are available, run `configure --help'.
+  Do NOT use the --no-debug option to configure.bat unless you are
+  absolutely sure the produced binaries will never need to be run under
+  a debugger.
 
   N.B.  It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure
   is running, when gcc support is being tested.  These cannot be
@@ -380,7 +383,8 @@
 
   You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is
   appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if
-  compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC.
+  compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC.  (GDB for Windows
+  is available from the MinGW site, http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.)
 
   When Emacs aborts due to a fatal internal error, Emacs on Windows
   pops up an Emacs Abort Dialog asking you whether you want to debug