Re: Problem building today's snapshot with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17T13:17:14Z

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:35:34 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> At Joel's request, I've built today's snapshot of the GDB master
> branch using mingw.org's MinGW, and found a problem when running the
> produced gdb.exe on versions of Windows older than 8.0 (in my case it
> was XP). The details are described in my report to the Gnulib folks:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-09/index.html

The Gnulib folks confirmed my report and provided a patch, see

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00075.html

How should we proceed? Do we import the updated Gnulib, or do we
patch our copy?