RE: ARI troubles

Pierre Muller
2012-04-26T16:01:51Z

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Doug Evans
> Envoyé : jeudi 26 avril 2012 17:40
> À : Joel Brobecker
> Cc : Pierre Muller; Pedro Alves; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Objet : Re: ARI troubles
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> wrote:
> >> src/gdb/contrib?
> >> src/contrib?
> >>
> >> gcc has lots of utility scripts in their top level contrib directory.
> >
> > We also have a few scripts in the src/gdb/ subdirectory. Putting
> > gdb_ari.sh there would keep them all together...

I think that those scripts
are used to generate sources in the build directory, no?

> That's how things like libiberty grow into unwieldy monsters. :-)
> And now there's too much inertia to do any better.

The usage of gdb_ari.sh is much more limited,
normal users, who just want to compile
a released GDB source, probably have no interest in that tool...

Thus a discrete sub-directory would seem more natural
to me.

Note that the current ARI page
lists several scripts:
Scripts: gdb_ari.sh gdb_copyright.sh gdb_find.sh gdb_indent.sh
gdb_makefile.sh gdb_orphan.sh

but I doubt the others are really up to date and used.

Pierre