Re: Building today's snapshot of GDB with MinGW

Christian Biesinger
2020-06-30T18:22:21Z

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:27:32 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > At Joel's request I've built today's (29 June) snapshot of GDB using
> > mingw.org's MinGW and GCC 9.2.0. There are a few issues I bumped into
> > related to Gnulib and MinGW runtime (which I recently upgraded to a
> > newer version), and I'm still working on those. So what's below is an
> > interim report of issues related to GDB itself:
>
> More information:
>
> Two issues I reported to Gnulib were fixed:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-06/msg00068.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-06/msg00069.html
>
> So I hope we could update from Gnulib before the GDB 10 branch is cut.

I can make a patch for that.

> Another problem is specific to the MinGW headers, and was also fixed:
>
> https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2020-June/000543.html

Better link, I think:
https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2020-June/000548.html
"feel free to modify your local copy, and I'll revert that change for
future releases."

Christian