GDB 9.1 release 2019-12-23 update

Joel Brobecker
2019-12-23T09:30:46Z

Hi everyone,

So, as far as I know, the only issues that are still open are
the issues that Eli found with the pre-release.

- [EliZ] readline/colors.c build failure

Caused by S_IXGRP and S_IXOTH not being defined on MinGW.
Patch sent to readline, and should be applied to our local
tree soon.

- [EliZ] configure warning when checking for pthread-config

Problem understood, but EliZ blocked because he doesn't have
the correct auto-tools version. Hopefully building those
from source is an option.

- [Eliz] libtcf fails to build on MinGW
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25155

Problem reported to binutils on Dec 17th, but so far
no answer as far as I can tell.
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00277.html

If we don't get an answer after the end of year holidays,
I suggest we send in a patch, which will likely help move
things along. From Eli's message on bugzilla, we shouldn't
be far from having one.

There might also be an issue with GDB/TUI, but that's less clear
at this stage.

Are there other issues that I may have missed for which we should
wait until we can release GDB 9.1?

Thank you!
--
Joel