Re: building GDB 9.0.50.20191206

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <[email protected]> writes:

Simon> On 2019-12-13 3:01 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
Simon> Tom, could you describe what is missing to complete this move?
>> 
>> Completing the move of gdbsupport and then gdbserver to top-level.

Simon> Yes, I understand that doing the move is necessary to complete the move :) ?  But are
Simon> there some known technical difficulties in doing it?

I'm sorry about the terse reply earlier.

The patch to move gdbsupport is here:

    https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-07/msg00337.html

Review here:

    https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-08/msg00433.html

Maybe some comments there still need to be addressed.  I can't recall
offhand.


Then comes the patch to move gdbserver.  This is pretty much mechanical,
I think.

Finally comes a patch to make gdbserver use the top-level gnulib and
gdbsupport.  This is mildly tricky due to type mismatches.

I've written all of these but they definitely need rebasing (which is
often nearly equivalent to rewriting them) and probably other tweaks as
well.

I wouldn't recommend this for gdb 9, but it does seem like a good idea
to start on these now, so that we have time to iron out the bugs.

Tom