Re: build/1411: Build of gdb-6.0 on hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 fails

["John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>]

The following reply was made to PR build/1411; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
To: drow@mvista.com (Daniel Jacobowitz)
Cc: chastain@sourceware.org, gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: build/1411: Build of gdb-6.0 on hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 fails
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:01:52 -0500 (EST)

 > Without a maintainer I don't know how long this code can survive.
 
 Right.  Carlos O'Donell tried to take this on but glibc has taken all
 his time.  Almost all my time is spent on gcc support.  Randolph Chung
 provides occassional help in different areas.  He is currently
 working on the libffi port.  Alan Modra helps out from time to
 time on binutils.  However, the reality is that we are stretched
 very thin given the pace of development in these projects.
 
 All this work requires a reasonably functional debugger.  I would
 certainly welcome a PA-RISC maintainer for gdb.  We can probably
 limp along as is for a while but it would be nice if things worked
 a bit better.
 
 This is a great opportunity for someone to learn more than they ever
 wanted to know about debug formats, the PA assembly language, object
 formats, runtimes, the dynamic loader, etc (i.e., the core of how things
 really work).
 
 Dave
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