Re: GDB ARIndex cleanup

Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-02T19:40:42Z

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:11:52 -0300
>
> El vie, 27-03-2009 a las 17:03 +0300, Eli Zaretskii escribiÃ³:
> > Last, but not least: the libdecnumber/ directory and its
> > subdirectories have numerous file-name clashes:
> >
> > The following resolve to the same DOS file names:
> <snip>
> > Would it be possible to rename some of the files to resolve these
> > issues? Again, it is not possible to use the fnchange.lst machinery
> > here, as these files are used during the DJGPP build.
>
> libdecnumber is an external library which is imported into the GDB and
> GCC trees, so I believe you'd have to discuss this with the library's
> author.
>
> The GCC folks seem to incorporate fixes directly to their copy (which
> then get copied to us), so perhaps they'll consider the renaming without
> involving upstream libdecnumber...

Like with gnulib (or maybe even more), I don't think I stand a chance
to get positive responses to my request for this, unless GDB supports
it as a whole project.

I guess I'm asking GDB to ask for this on behalf of the DJGPP port.