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Re: [Fwd: native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11]
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: cagney at gnu dot org
- Cc: brobecker at gnat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:53:24 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11]
> I think the most useful thing to find is a copy of the relevant ABI.
> With that it should be possible to revamp the code, bringing it up to
> scratch.
I'm not close to that yet.
. readline does not build with gcc. I decided to tackle this first.
I'm creating some patches for the standalone readline and I will
submit them to Chet Ramey, the readline maintainer. If he likes them,
then I will ask Elena to put them in our local readline as well.
. I have to decide which compilers to build gdb with. There are
four compilers to choose from: gcc, the bundled cc, the unbundled
ansi c compiler, and the aC++ compiler.
The bundled cc isn't even installed on the HP test drive machines
so I expect that I will just punt on that. I think that all the
others need to work though.
. I have to decide which compilers to build test programs with,
and figure out which debug formats make sense to test. Also there is
32-bit versus 64-bit and pre-standard-c++-library versus
standard-c++-library.
. I have to do something about all the little cheats in migchain and
migbat where they are not really set up for multiple architectures
yet. I don't really have to fix them, but I have to get them to the
point where I can do work with them.
And here's a big one:
. What do we do about hpux 10.20?
There's no hpux 10.20 in the HP test drive pool. HP has a good reason
for this: they discontinued hpux 10.20 on 2002-06-30, and obsoleted it
on 2003-06-30!
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,5143,00.html
All of hpux10* is no longer supported by HP. So we have no maintainer
and no machine. But we do have a recent PR, PR gdb/1411.
I would like to give hppa*-hp-hpux10* the boot. Put it through the
obsoletion process, and then remove any test code which is
hpux10-specific, and then not worry about breaking hpux10 while I am
fixing hpux11.
What do you think of that?
Michael C