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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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In-Reply-To: <83tuw5ir09.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 10
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Subject: Re: Problem building today's snapshot with MinGW
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> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:35:34 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> At Joel's request, I've built today's snapshot of the GDB master
> branch using mingw.org's MinGW, and found a problem when running the
> produced gdb.exe on versions of Windows older than 8.0 (in my case it
> was XP).  The details are described in my report to the Gnulib folks:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-09/index.html

The Gnulib folks confirmed my report and provided a patch, see

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00075.html

How should we proceed?  Do we import the updated Gnulib, or do we
patch our copy?