$FreeBSD$ To strip down a new version of gdb for import, extract the files like this: tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz -X FREEBSD-Xlist tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/i386 tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/alpha tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/powerpc tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/ia64 tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/none tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/sparc tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/arm tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/nm-linux.h tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/tm-linux.h tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/tm-vxworks.h tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/include/gdb/ChangeLog tar xzf gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz gdb-5.2.1/include/gdb/signals.h