[RFC 3/6] mingw-hdep: Add "maint set testuite-mode on/off" command.

[Pedro Alves]

On 09/30/2013 08:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "'Pedro Alves'" <palves@redhat.com>, "'Yao Qi'" <yao@codesourcery.com>,        "'gdb-patches'" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:22:57 -0600
>>
>> 5.26 was released in 1998 -- so, it is ancient.  It's reasonable to
>> require something newer.
> 
> What if MSYS provides no newer versions?

Somebody should work on providing it, IMO, if they want to
run the testsuite against it.  (this is testing we're talking about,
not building GDB itself).  I'm familiar with the history behind MSYS (old
Cygwin fork, etc.), but this not really a core MSYS component one would
assume would require a bunch of effort to compile for MSYS -- I'd imagine
it not to be hard.  Maybe a few patches to forward port, if any.  Then
we'd just need a wiki page explaining the whole 'testing Windows GDB under
Cygwin or MSYS' -- a good idea regardless, IMO.

(The MSYS-redone-on-top-of-newer-cygwin-as-a-sort-of-plugin/mode effort
will hopefully make these MSYS-stuck-in-the-dark-ages issues all be
history sooner than later).

-- 
Pedro Alves