From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13640 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2005 23:13:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13600 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2005 23:12:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Apr 2005 23:12:59 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DHVJz-0000tz-H0 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:12:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:13:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch] Allow compilation by IBM's xlc compiler Message-ID: <20050401231259.GA3382@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200504011440.16592.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <20050401224525.GA2344@nevyn.them.org> <200504011503.35642.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504011503.35642.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:03:35PM -0800, Paul Gilliam wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 14:45, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Paul Gilliam wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Several of your mails have been empty - not useful. > > Please don't exagerate: it's only 40% 8-) They were still coming in when I wrote that :-) > > Also, they could all do with a little explanation. > > I thought the subject was enough, but if you want more detail, I can do that. > Basicly we're just trying to get the testsuite to run with the IBM xlc compiler. > For the most part, it's just renameing the flags: -qmkshrobj for -shared, > -qpic for -fpic and that kind of thing. In one case, xlc was puting out a warning > that gcc doesn't and that had be turned off. Explanations with the patch, please. No exceptions. I want to be able to look back in the archives and understand why a patch was needed. > > The patches for -shared are not great. I posted a testcase (several > > months ago, for a patch which is still pending) which moved the > > PIC/shared tests to lib/gdb.exp. One of us should dust off that patch > > if you need to add cases to every one of them. > > > > Could you give me a URL to your testsuite patch? I have 6 or so of these so If > you have a better way, I'd love to use it. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-11/msg00538.html The testcase should wait until the patch it's testing is reviewed, but you can use the lib/gdb.exp bits. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC