From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26968 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2014 19:39:52 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 26956 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2014 19:39:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com Received: from sub5.mail.dreamhost.com (HELO homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com) (208.113.200.129) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:39:50 +0000 Received: from homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4665938A06F; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from redwood.eagercon.com (c-24-7-16-38.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.7.16.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eager@eagerm.com) by homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 247B738A058; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:39:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <546CF204.2030803@eagerm.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:39:00 -0000 From: Michael Eager User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] Remove HPUX References: <20141016220028.GA25839@host2.jankratochvil.net> <544060F6.2070309@eagerm.com> <20141017132613.GH25846@adacore.com> <54414F78.5060905@eagerm.com> <20141119185431.GA2360@host2.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20141119185431.GA2360@host2.jankratochvil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 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." -- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077