From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29336 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2011 19:57:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 29328 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2011 19:57:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com) (65.115.85.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:57:22 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0D91C014; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C65C8EDF5; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D5C2C20.1060004@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:18:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: Stan Shebs , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver] References: <4D30E23F.3080103@codesourcery.com> <4D34C9DE.3040603@codesourcery.com> <4D375F44.70504@codesourcery.com> <20110215133739.GA14877@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20110215211537.GA20962@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <4D5B2999.5010906@codesourcery.com> <4D5B74E0.10102@codesourcery.com> <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> <4D5C29A4.2080403@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00387.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder writes: > > Michael> doc isn't part of gdb, testsuites aren't part of gdb... > > This part doesn't make sense to me. I think immediately, "of course > those are part of gdb". That's because when we modify gdb, we modify > those as well -- we're constantly telling people that a complete patch > includes docs and test changes. > > Anyway, common will definitely be part of gdb, at least from my point of > view. gdb won't build without it. Changes in common will require > changes in gdb. Plus, it is in a subdirectory of gdb. > > Somehow I feel you are sure to disagree :-). I am interested to hear > the reason why. I don't disagree. Common is part of gdb. My reasoning on doc and testsuite is that making a change to either one of those does not de facto change gdb.