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Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] cross-gdb: add XML support

From: BenoÃt THÃBAUDEAU <benoit dot thebaudeau at advansee dot com>
To: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>
Cc: crossgcc at sourceware dot org, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:56:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] cross-gdb: add XML support

Bryan, all,

> > Granted. They do that stuff. The question is: how far do we want to
> > go?
> > I'm mostly alone in maintaining and evolving crostool-NG, and I see
> > the
> > burden falling onto me to support a new companion library yet
> > again; and
> > then a new companion tool, and then a new [whatever], that could
> > also be
> > installed using the distro's packages.
> >
> > Plus, the maintenance work done by the distros far outweights what
> > I
> > could possibly do to fix/update/... this companion stuff...
>
> I agree with Yann.

I agree too on this point.

> If we want this, maybe just add another
> 'has_or_abort', or I suggest having a 'has_or_warn' and setting a
> CONFIG_ variable saying that you have libexpat or not, so gdb does
> the
> right thing.
> Maintaining companion libraries is a pita.

That could be a solution. Yann, what do you think?

Regards,
BenoÃt

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