Re: [RFA] fix for utils.c bool problem

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> 
> Sorry if I missed an objection.  I was a little out of it yesterday.
> 
> The immediate problem was -not- fixed.  To start back at the beginning
> again:
>   - On my machine, running a current Debian system, <curses.h> includes
>    <stdbool.h>.  We have to live with that.  There's nothing I can
>    particularly do about it.


Is that a current or a released debian system?  A released system I'd 
probably agreeable to.  A current system I'm less so.

>   - The way I tried to fix this was by also using stdbool.h if it was
>    available.  But <stdbool.h> conflicts with an awful lot of existing
>    code.  This is unfortunate, and this is where the proper fix lies,
>    IMO.
>   - The way I settled on fixing this, and committed, was to use
>    <stdbool.h> if something included before bfd.h had already brought
>    it in.  This appears to work in all cases.
> 
> I strongly want to avoid leaving GDB unbuildable on this class of
> systems.  I don't have any particular attachment to my patch.  I would
> love to revert it, as soon as there is an alternative solution in
> place.


See my thread on binutils about how to fix the problem.

enjoy,
Andrew