Re: GDB-5 2000-03-03

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> This doesn't include the watchpoint-related patches I sent beginning
> with August or September, and mentioned them again three weeks ago.
> Here again are the pointers to the relevant messages:
> 
>  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q3/msg00173.html
>  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q3/msg00204.html
>  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q4/msg00200.html
>  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q4/msg00201.html

Ok.  I'm going to have think about this one.

> > In the case of ELi's binutils stuff, something more ruthless might be
> > needed.
> 
> I don't think this is needed anymore, since Ian merged in some of my
> changes and the rest are solved by upgrading to a later libtool.  (I
> still have some unprocessed Binutils patches, but they are not
> important for GDB, since they are in the applications, like ld and ar,
> not in the libraries.)

Great, thanks.

> But there's a similar issue with Readline.  The current version in the
> GDB CVS tree has bugs in the DJGPP-specific code, one of which simply
> prevents GDB from linking.  I see that most of these problems are
> solved in the current beta version of Readline, but will you be
> synchronizing the GDB tree with that version before release?  If not,
> I don't see any solution but a local patch.  Please advise.

Consider yourself the maintainer of the DJGPP specific readline stuff
(like mmalloc).  (I'll add a note to MAINTAINERS.)

The main thing is to make certain that the true readline sources have
the fix as well.  I wasn't planning on importing readline (I'll add a
note stateing that this is something that won't make it).

	Andrew