Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver]

Michael Snyder
2011-02-16T19:46:53Z

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:
>
> Stan> I suppose we want to treat pre-2011 change files as read-only, but
> Stan> I'm wondering if an enterprising scripter could come up with a
> Stan> scheme to pull all the 2011 change entries in subdirs into the main
> Stan> gdb/ChangeLog, correctly interleaved and with subdirs added to
> Stan> filenames...
>
> Michael> Really? Including testsuite and doc? That does not seem like an
> Michael> improvement to me....
>
> Last time around we kept separate ones in testsuite and doc, IIRC
> because you objected. Nobody is proposing changing that, but I'd still
> rather avoid adding new ones.
>
> To look at it another way -- why not add one for every subdir?
> testsuite/*/, cli/, mi/? Would that improve things? I think it is just
> a historical accident that things are the way they are.

I don't think so. cli and mi don't have one because they are part
of gdb. gdbserver isn't part of gdb, so it has one. doc isn't part
of gdb, testsuites aren't part of gdb...

By the same token, testsuite/gdb.base doesn't have one because it
is part of testsuite.

It all seems quite logical to me...