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Re: compatible versions of gdb6.1 and binutils?
- From: 'Daniel Jacobowitz' <drow at false dot org>
- To: Marcus Rosen <mrosen at lsil dot com>
- Cc: "'gdb at sources dot redhat dot com'" <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:42:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: compatible versions of gdb6.1 and binutils?
- References: <10EE351D89AE1F488B426AC91EF6EDAB0120C82A@server-1.videolocus.com>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:06:45PM -0400, Marcus Rosen wrote:
>
> I can see that I would need to checkout the sources from cvs myself. But my
> confusion has to do with how to pick what versions to grab. I expect that I
> would want to grab the gdb alias module at the 6.1 release tag. But now I'm
> not sure how to pick which versions of the naked-ld, naked-gas and
> naked-binutils to grab. Grabbing from the head doesn't seem like an option
> since I need to have code that is at least thought to be stable and it would
> be nearly impossible for me to upgrade my versions of the sources later if I
> couldn't generate diffs against a tag. What I was hoping was that gdb
> depended on a specific "release" of the shared components so that it would
> be possible to pick a common baseline between gdb and binutils. So I'm
> wondering if anyone can suggest how I would go about picking these versions,
> that is unless I got something completely wrong?
There is no depending on specific "releases". They all live on HEAD;
at one point GDB 6.1 branched; at another point binutils 2.15 branched.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer