Re: Help with conflict between gdb-7.11 and binutils-2.26

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:28:01PM -0700, Brendan Leber wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I've been happily using GNU Stow v2.2.2 for a while but tonight I had
> a problem and have been unable to figure out how to get things
> working.
> 
> A couple of months ago I downloaded GNU gdb v7.11 and installed it via
> stow.  Everything is working fine.
> 
> Tonight I downloaded GNU Binutils v2.26.  Compilation and "make
> install" to my stow directory (/usr/local/stow/binutils-2.26) worked
> find.  However when I issued "sudo stow binutils-2.26" I received an
> error about a conflict, included below.
> 
> WARNING! stowing binutils-2.26 would cause conflicts:
>   * existing target is stowed to a different package:
> include/ansidecl.h => ../stow/gdb-7.11/include/ansidecl.h

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AFAICS this is simply showing a conflict between your gdb and binutils
which are both providing the same files for some reason.  Maybe you
got a version mismatch between them, or maybe they are both supposed
to provide the same files.  Whatever the reason, it's nothing to do
with Stow.  I recommend you read the installation manuals for those
projects.