Re: patch to gdb on Tru64 5.1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:22:28AM +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am an employee of Ada Core Technologies, Inc, and I've done some work
>on gdb to make it work on Tru64 5.1 (it currently does not compile on
>this plateform). ACT is happy to contribute the changes that we made in
>the hope that it will be useful to others.
>
>Here is the patch agains the latest CVS sources that will allow gdb to
>compile and work on Tru64 5.1 using the native cc compiler. I don't know
>if it will successfully build with gcc.
>
>On top of the patch, there is this new file 'alpha-osf5.mh' in
>'gdb/config/alpha' that will need to be created. I am attaching it as
>well.

I just checked and I don't see any assignments with the FSF for gdb work
from ACT.  This is sort of surprising since I believe that there are two
ACT representatives on the GDB steering committee.  Maybe I missed
something or maybe this is another ACT.

Anyway, IMO, you'll need an assignment with the FSF if you want to get
your change into the official gdb.  This change is around thirty lines
or so and adds a new file and so I believe it does not qualify as a
trivial patch.

If you do decide to submit this formally, you'll also want to submit a
true ChangeLog entry in the accepted format.  Check out the gdb web site
at http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ for pointers on how to do this.

cgf