Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]

Joel Brobecker
2014-02-13T07:37:29Z

> > - Email to gdb or gdb-announce to announce that ports XXX, YYY, and
> > ZZZ are deprecated, and that GDB version 7.8 will be the last
> > release supporting them. The decision can be reverted if someone
> > commits to maintaining that port;
>
> Did you mean to write there 7.7? Otherwise for example the import of IPv6
> getaddrinfo is still blocked.

Yes, sorry.

> I failed to build (make failed to find how to build file "-lz") GDB even on
> AIX - on gcc111.fsffrance.org - which should be a supported OS (by you
> coincidentally) so I have doubts GDB is buildable on OSes no one even tests.

I did so on gcc111 not so long ago, and now that we have our ppc-aix
machine back, we build it routinely.

For the other platforms, I cannot say.

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Joel