Re: Your INTERMEDIATE_ENCODING patch for Solaris

Tom Tromey
2010-08-18T15:35:37Z

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> IMO, investing too much energy into making GDB work with a "difficult"
Joel> (aka broken) libiconv is a waste of precious time. Perhaps it's time
Joel> for us to cut the losses and decide that building GDB requires GNU
Joel> libiconv. I was first in line asking that GDB could be built without
Joel> GNU libiconv, but I can see from experience how much of a mess that is...

Joel> ?

I think we're ok. The hard part is already done -- all the PHONY_ICONV
support code and typedefs and indirections. This last bit is just
tinkering with the configury a little to get a decent result by default.

FWIW, all this current change means is that Solaris users will see
escape sequences more often than they might want to.

Tom