Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> The gnulib problem was fixed upstream, see
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-01/msg00044.html
> 
> Can we please import that fix into GDB, so that the next releases will
> not have the problem?  (I don't know how to import from gnulib, let
> alone do it for just some of the modules.)

No one's really answered, so I'll provide some feedback: We can add
one or more modules, but I'm pretty sure the code for all modules need
to be from the same version of gnulib. This means we need to import
a more recent version of gnulib, but IIRC, the past few upgrades
haven't always been completely smooth (although, perhaps it was
more about the fact that we were adding new modules, rather than
the fact that we were upgrading). In any case, doing the upgrade
itself is fairly simple, but one needs to have enough time afterwards
to follow up on any issues that come up from the update.

I'd do it for you, but I don't have much of the time to followup
on any breakage caused by it. If others are willing to help with
that, I could give the gnulib update a go.

-- 
Joel