From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19776 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2011 08:11:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 19762 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2011 08:11:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:11:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DD92BB43F; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:11:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 4hmNlepIzRGd; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:11:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B4B2BB43E; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:11:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67639145615; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:11:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:41:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Ralf Corsepius Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: status on gdb-7.4 release... Message-ID: <20111222081119.GR23376@adacore.com> References: <20111222062604.GU7683@adacore.com> <4EF2D728.8050509@rtems.org> <20111222072526.GQ23376@adacore.com> <4EF2E2D6.8020503@rtems.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EF2E2D6.8020503@rtems.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00768.txt.bz2 > OK, then ... wouldn't it be better to install this header into a > versioned directory, say > > $(includedir)/gdb-$(GDB_VERSION) > or > $(includedir)/gdb/$(GDB_VERSION) > ? > > Otherwise this file will conflict with other gdbs' versions of this > file when having different versions of gdb installed in parallel[1] > and should this file change in future versions of gdb. The same is true of everything else that goes into the so-called gdb-datadir, I think. What we should probably do is make the default gdb-datadir versioned. This is in fact what we manually do at AdaCore, by configuring with --with-gdb-datadir. But if this is something you'd like to pursue, it'd be better if you did so in a separate thread. I'd like to keep this purely to track the release. And the suggestion above have drawbacks, so it's not a no-brainer. -- Joel