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Synchronizing Binutils and GDB releases
- From: Nicholas Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:31:23 +0100
- Subject: Synchronizing Binutils and GDB releases
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Hi Tristan, Hi Joel,
What do you think to the idea of synchronizing GDB and BINUTILS
releases ?
The idea was raised at this year's GNU Tool's Cauldron. It would
help users who manage combined toolchain sources. Currently if they
want to create a combined tree of specific releases of the gcc, gdb and
binutils they have to choose which version of the BFD library to use.
But if they find a bug and want to check in a fix, they have to remember
that there are actually two versions of the BFD sources to patch.
Multiply this by a number of different GDB/BINUTILS release
combintations and this becomes a maintenance headache.
If we had a combined release there would be only one branch in the
git repository and things would be a lot simpler. We could even extend
this idea by arranging for the release to happen slightly before each
GCC release. Then GCC version X could could say that it works best with
GDB/BINUTILS version Y.
Cheers
Nick