Re: [RFC 0/2] Let's discuss moving gdbserver to top-level

[Alan Hayward <Alan dot Hayward at arm dot com>]

> On 30 May 2019, at 22:30, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
> 
> I've wanted to move gdbserver to the top-level for a while now.  I
> think it will provide a decent benefit, mainly by letting gdb and
> gdbserver share their libiberty, gnulib, and "common" libraries --
> shaving off some build time.  It also will have the nice side effect
> of simplifying gdbserver's Makefile, fixing some existing bugs.
> 
> I have written the patches to do this, but before reworking them into
> submittable form, I thought I'd send a couple of initial patches and
> start a discussion.
> 
> This short series removes a couple of barriers to turning "common"
> into a library.  These are pretty much the only changes that could be
> sent in isolation.
> 
> The rest of the series is:
> 
> * Move gnulib to the top-level
> * Rename "common" to "gdbsupport" in preparation for a move
> * Move "gdbsupport" to top-level
> * Move gdbserver to top-level
> * Make gdbserver share the other top-level libraries
> 
> Most of the patches are pretty mechanical.  There are one or two
> hacks, primarily because this series doesn't move the "nat" directory.
> 
> Let me know what you think.


Do you have a work in progress branch you could push? I think it’d be
Useful to see what things look like after all the changes.

> 
> Tom
> 
>