Re: status on gdb-7.4 release...

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>]

On 12/22/2011 09:11 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> OK, then ... wouldn't it be better to install this header into a
>> versioned directory, say
>>
>> $(includedir)/gdb-$(GDB_VERSION)
>> or
>> $(includedir)/gdb/$(GDB_VERSION)
>> ?
>>
>> Otherwise this file will conflict with other gdbs' versions of this
>> file when having different versions of gdb installed in parallel[1]
>> and should this file change in future versions of gdb.
> The same is true of everything else that goes into the so-called
> gdb-datadir, I think.
Agreed.

> What we should probably do is make the default
> gdb-datadir versioned.  This is in fact what we manually do at AdaCore,
> by configuring with --with-gdb-datadir.
I so far have been using --with-gdb-datadir=$(datadir)/$(target)-gdb
Likely you are right and I should start using a versioned directory.

> But if this is something you'd like to pursue, it'd be better if
> you did so in a separate thread. I'd like to keep this purely to
> track the release. And the suggestion above have drawbacks, so
> it's not a no-brainer.
>
Agreed. I'll try to use a versioned --includedir and --with-gdb-datadir 
in my next build spin.

Ralf