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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't try building gdb against guile-2.2
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 17:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y3olsgty.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171008164703.12953-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> (message from	Simon Marchi on Sun, 8 Oct 2017 12:47:03 -0400)

> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Date: Sun,  8 Oct 2017 12:47:03 -0400
> 
> GDB currently doesn't build with Guile 2.2 (see PR 21104).  If one has
> both Guile 2.2 and 2.0 installed, GDB will pick up Guile 2.2 first and
> fail building.  Until somebody does the work of adapting the GDB code to
> Guile 2.2, we should not try using it.  This patch therefore removes it
> from configure.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* configure.ac (try_guile_versions): Remove guile-2.2.
> 	* configure: Regenerate.

Should we perhaps have a configure-time option, by default off, to use
Guile 2.2?  Otherwise, how would that "somebody" work on fixing this
problem, if they cannot even try building with Guile 2.2?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-08 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-08 16:47 Simon Marchi
2017-10-08 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-10-08 17:20   ` Simon Marchi
2017-10-08 17:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-09 16:42 Doug Evans via gdb-patches
2017-10-09 16:52 ` Simon Marchi

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