Re: cherry picking documentation patches to 8.1 branch

[Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>]

On 09/05/18 18:47, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> hello, i'd like to backport these patches into the 8.1 branch:
>>
>> Thanks, this is obviously fine with me.
> 
> Excellent. But before you do the push, please make sure to have
> a GDB/PR number, describing what the issues are, and with the target
> milestone set to 8.1.1. Once you have that, if you could please add
> that reference to the ChangeLog entries and commits' revision log.
> 
> Example of such a PR, which should link you to the attached commits,
> and in particular how we put the GDB PR number in the ChangeLog and
> revision log:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22849
> 
> (this is SOP for pushing patches to a release branch once the first
> release off that branch has been made).
> 

thanks,

meanwhile i realized i'm building from binutils-2_30-branch,
not the 8.1 branch (which is fine).

i assume gdb is still intended to be buildable from the
binutils branch, so i can ask binutils for a backport.

sorry for the noise.