Re: GDB 7.5.91 available for testing

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:02:20 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > I built this natively on Windows with 32-bit MinGW tools, and bumped
> > into a few issues.
> 
> Thanks! Would you mind submitting each patch individually, so we can
> track them?

Done.

> If there are any that you feel you can self-approve, please also go
> ahead.

I need approval from DJ for the libiberty part.  As for the other one,
I'd prefer to hear approval, since it's semi-kludgey.

> >    Looks like it reads Python init files from the installed (previous)
> >    GDB version, and barfs.  How to tell it to use its own Python
> >    files?  It would be a nuisance not to be able to run GDB without
> >    installing it first.
> > 
> >    Also, are the DWARF-related warnings serious or expected?  (I'm
> >    using GCC 4.7.2, the latest one available from MinGW.)
> 
> We already discussed this, and many different ideas were suggested,
> but none that was satisfactory. You need to do what the testsuite does,
> which is change a setting, I just don't remember which.

Can anyone point me to the archives where this setting is described?
Thanks.

> So far, none of the issues that you listed appear blocking. Am I right?

Not blocking, although I'd prefer to have the warnings due to
pyerrors.h be fixed on the release branch.