Re: Adding binutils to the GNU Toolchain buildbot on sourceware

"Frank Ch. Eigler via Binutils" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:43:06 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi -

> As a general comment, I think we should have a single buildbot entry for the
> whole of binutils-gdb.

Perhaps!

> Given changes to bfd and opcodes can affect gdb, why not build gdb alongside
> the other tools? You don't need to run the gdb testsuite, which should make
> things much more deterministic.

But this is not an argument for building gdb as a part of testing binutils.
This is an argument for building & testing gdb if binutils changes.
That is: an additional buildbot job.

- FChE