From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19856 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2011 08:41:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 19722 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2011 08:41:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout0.freenet.de (HELO mout0.freenet.de) (195.4.92.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:40:51 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.141] (helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RdeCn-0007cw-Bf; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:40:49 +0100 Received: from localhost ([::1]:52180 helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RdeCn-0007Pr-7m; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:40:49 +0100 Received: from [195.4.92.28] (port=51221 helo=18.mx.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1Rde9s-00067v-Bi; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:37:48 +0100 Received: from hsi-kbw-078-043-060-159.hsi4.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([78.43.60.159]:38914 helo=[192.168.1.104]) by 18.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (port 587) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1Rde9r-0003Q9-GV; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:37:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4EF2EC52.4050300@rtems.org> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:33:00 -0000 From: Ralf Corsepius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: status on gdb-7.4 release... References: <20111222062604.GU7683@adacore.com> <4EF2D728.8050509@rtems.org> <20111222072526.GQ23376@adacore.com> <4EF2E2D6.8020503@rtems.org> <20111222081119.GR23376@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20111222081119.GR23376@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00769.txt.bz2 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