Re: x86_64-elf gdb

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:19:34 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID	<20150330211934.GG25224@vapier>

On 30 Mar 2015 15:59, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On 3/30/2015 3:54 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >> It built for me. But I don't have any way to test it.
> >> Is that enough to submit a patch for the elf stanza addition?
> > That seems odd to me.  What would be the advantage of pushing
> > that patch if it's a configuration that you can't test?
> >
> At the moment, x86_64-elf doesn't even build for binutils-gdb. It fails
> due to a missing gdb configuration.
> 
> And if binutils-gdb doesn't complete successfully, that means gcc can't
> be built for this target.

so patch it locally, test everything, and only then send patches to the 
respective projects ?  i'm not sure why this is onerous ?  this is how
it's always done for new targets ...
-mike

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