GDB 7.8 update (getting closer, new pre-release)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Hello everyone,

First, a big Thank You to everyone who worked on cleaning out
all the regressions and blocking issues so far. While the release
process for this branch started as the quietest ever for me,
the number of identified blocking issues eventually rose to about
3 times the number of issues identified in the previous release
process. We're down to 3 entries in the TODO list before 7.8 release,
so Thank You to everyone involved in the fixes getting us there.

The 3 entries are:

    [Doug/Pedro] Asynchronous + all-stop problematic on gdbserver
    (being debated as not critical for 7.8, and I think I saw a patch
    from Doug to help the user in case of problem)

    [Doug] /usr/share/gdb/{guile,python}/ gets installed even --without-{guile,python}
    NTH - not serious, nice to have only

    [Doug] Precompile scheme files
    NTH - not critical, but just a bit more important than "nice to have"

Issue #1 looks like it's on its way to being mitigated, and in
the meantime isn't critical. Issue #2 is "nice to have", and
issue #3 is "important".

Doug - any thoughts on when we might a fix, at least for issue #3?
I propose that we take issue #2 out of the mix. We've been doing
this for Python files too, so it could be argued as not being
a regression.

I propose I make a second pre-release tomorrow morning, or even
tonight. That should give people some time to re-test. I'm away
next week, but hopefully by the time I come back, we'll be ready
to make that release.

Thoughts?

-- 
Joel