Re: m32r sim was Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?

Joel Brobecker
2013-04-10T00:38:55Z

> >I have to admit that the number of iterations and the amount of
> >research/testing needed in order to try to get this right is
> >making me slightly nervous. Nothing we can do about it for
> >this release. But for future releases, Ralf & Joel, do you think
> >you could incorporate some regular testing of the HEAD on your
> >end?
>
> Well, I am not actually developing on gdb, but am packaging
> rtems-gdbs for different host OSes. Therefore, I am usually
> jumping-in when gdb releases a pre-release tarball and am testing
> building it. Apologies, if this is inconvenient to you,

It's not inconvenient to me, but it significantly delays the release
cycle to find problems of this sort so late in the game, and it also
reduces the amount of exposure the fix might have. It's such a shame
because such errors are so each to catch right away... All it needs
is a little nightly/weekly script that fetches the latest head, and
rebuilds the configurations that you care about. I am asking whether
you could help with that, since these are the targets that you do
care about.

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Joel