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

Benoît THÉBAUDEAU benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com
Wed May 25 18:57:00 GMT 2011


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,
Benoît

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