Re: [COMMIT] OpenBSD/mips64 target and native support

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>]

   Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:07:16 -0500
   From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

   > Scaring away contributors by making unreasonable demands isn't a
   > sensible thing to do.

   Our situtation here is identical to what we encountered with basic 
   multi-arch, the frame code, the regcace code, the function call code. 
   There, with our help and co-operation, people not just stepped up to, 
   but also exceeded the challenge.

I strongly disagree.  The shared library code touches core parts of
GDB.  There's no way an outsider is going to be able to fix that
properly, especially since changes will have to be tested on a
multitude of platforms.  There is also absolutely no visible benefit
from making the required changes.  This is something the shared
library maintainer and core maintainers have to sort out.  It's going
to take quite a bit of time to do so.

In the mean time it is unfair to contributors to simply refuse
contribution of any new code.

Mark