Re: [patch] Remove HPUX

[Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>]

On 11/19/14 10:54, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:18:48 +0200, Michael Eager wrote:
>> On 10/17/14 06:26, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>> There is a LinkedIn HP-UX Users group with almost 4000 members.
>>>> I don't know whether it is active or moribund.  It might be nice
>>>> to see if anyone in the group cares before pulling the plug.
>>>
>>> Would you mind sending them a link to this message, and ask if
>>> any of them would like to step up for it? FWIW, I don't have
>>> any idea of the status of the debugger. On PA, the last version
>>> I used was 6.3; on ia64, it was 7.5.
>>
>> I posted messages about dropping GDB support in HP-UX in
>> several LinkedIn groups related to HP-UX.  Some messages are
>> awaiting approval.
>
> Are the messages still awaiting approval?

Folks on LinkedIn were mostly concerned that changes in FSF
GDB support would affect their use of HP's WDB debugger.  I
assured them that this was not the case.

I was in touch with people in HP's debugger group about a week
ago.  They have a version of gdb based on gdb-6.5 and their
changes have not been pushed back to FSF.  They only use GDB
for GCC compilations, which they no longer support.  (They
only support their aC++ compiler and wdb debugger.)  They said
that they were aware of the proposal to drop HPUX support from
FSF GDB.

My contact at HP said that he had reached out to others
at HP to see if there was interest for keeping HPUX support
in FSF GDB alive, but hadn't received any positive responses.

As McCoy said "It's dead, Jim."

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