Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 16.1 released!

Joel Brobecker <[email protected]> writes:

>> >> 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.
>
> Great news!
>
> What's the general sentiment towards the corrective release?
> Do people agree that it's worth the effort doing on now?

I don't want to impose unnecessary additional work on you, but my
feeling is that a corrective release would be a good idea given that
configuring using '../configure' isn't a totally crazy thing to do.

But would be nice to see what others think.

Thanks,
Andrew