Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 16.1 released!

Joel Brobecker <[email protected]> writes:

> [Apologies for the resend, Andrew - wrong email address for the gdb
> mailing-list]
>
>> If/when this is merged I do plan to back-port this to the gdb-16-branch,
>> but given the build following the suggested steps works fine, I'm not
>> sure this justifies a follow up release.  But I wanted to raise this for
>> discussion.
>
> I fear that using a relative path to configure when building out-of-tree
> might be fairly common. Thankfully, the workaround is relatively
> straightforward, so once users get the answer, they can move forward
> quickly, but getting this answer may not be straightforward.
>
> It might be worth doing a first corrective release right away.

The bfd fix was approved and merged to master.  I have also pushed the
fix to the gdb-16-branch.  If we did want a corrective fix then we have
everything we need in place.

Thanks,
Andrew