Re: GDB 9.0.90 available for testing

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:51:28 -0600
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:23 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 2. readline/colors.c fails to compile because it uses the likes of
> >    S_IXGRP and S_IXOTH, which aren't defined in MinGW.  The solution
> >    is to patch readline/posixstat.h to add the missing defines (it
> >    tries to do so, but makes assumptions that don't do a perfect job).
> 
> I don't see either of those two used in colors.c?

It uses S_IXUGO, which is defined via those.  It also uses S_IWOTH.

> > Please tell me how to go about fixing these problems on the release
> > branch.  Do we still maintain our separate copy of Readline, or do I
> > need to report to its upstream maintainer?  And what to do about
> > libctf? how can I speed up the handling of those problems upstream?
> 
> I've had some success in sending a bug report/patch to upstream
> readline. Not sure about ctf.

The questions is whether I fix this in our copy independently of
reporting to upstream, or report upstream, and then someone updates
our copy from upstream.

Thanks.