FYI: gnulib now available at toplevel of binutils-gdb.git

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Joel,

> The "gnulib" copy maintained by the GDB community has recently been
> moved to the toplevel directory (in an effort to share the build
> artefacts between GDB and GDBserver, IIUC). Within the GDB group,
> we have found this library to be extremely useful, and perhaps
> the binutils group will want to use it too.

Do you have some examples of how gnulib has helped GDB ?

I am all for reusing code, and especially sharing between the binutils
and GDB, so if there is a use case for us then I would be happy to
consider it.


> In the meantime, there is one slightly trivial question that
> we want to ask: Do you guys want us to restrict commit emails
> for changes in this directory to go solely to the gdb mailing-list?

No thanks - I think keeping the binutils in on the discussions would
be valuable.

Cheers
  Nick