Re: GDB 9.1 release 2019-12-23 update

Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-23T14:14:07Z

> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:30:31 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> So, as far as I know, the only issues that are still open are
> the issues that Eli found with the pre-release.

Sorry about that.

> - [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.

Will do 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.

I believe this was already fixed.

> - [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.

I already have a patch, so I can apply it whenever you say so.

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

What about the compilation warning in record-btrace.c I reported in
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-12/msg00706.html? Do we
want to fix it?