[toplevel patch] delete references to tix
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Mon Mar 10 21:54:00 GMT 2003
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:18, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
>
>> I don't think there's a public release that doens't include tix yet.
>> Am I mistaken? If so, I stand corrected, and the patch may very well
>> go in now.
>
>
> The last official release, gdb 5.3 had an Insight that still used tix.
> I don't recommend this version to Insight users, but I see your point
> about builds. I guess someone might still need the tix toplevel stuff;
> I just left it in out of laziness and because it didn't affect anything.
Alex wrote:
> Maybe it's a bit too early? Consider that someone might create a
> unified tree out of the latest stable releases of the tools, as
> described in the CrossGCC FAQ IIRC, and then, if it turns out that the
> insight release still uses tix, but the toplevel no longer does, we
> lose.
I think `they loose'. The senario you describe is, at this stage,
strictly hypothetical. It only occures if, at some future stage, a
binutils or gcc containing this change is made before GDB.
Besides, such edge conditions should be covered by the CrossGCC FAQ (has
that really not been changed in >3 years?).
enjoy,
Andrew
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