Re: start of the GDB 11 release cycle

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> > It's been about 6.5 months since we made the first GDB 10 release (10.1).
> > So I propose we start the process of creating the GDB 11 release now.
> [...]
> > Are there other issues or last minute features we'd like to include
> > before we branch and/or release?
> 
> I've just tried a sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11 build of gdb master and found
> that there are hundreds of testsuite regressions, unlike
> amd64-pc-solaris2.11 which is effectively unchanged.  It turned out that
> this is a known issue already reported (only for binutils previously) in
> PR binutils/27666.
> 
> The easiest (and safest) course of action is to revert the
> bfd/config.bfd part of Alan's original patch, I believe.

Thanks for the heads up, Rainer.

I'll follow that one as well. Worse case scenario, if there is
a delay in the actual fix, we can go with the revert you mentioned
right after we've created the branch, so we have a backup plan.

-- 
Joel