Re: Breakage on builder RHEL-s390x-m64, revision c2bf1eecf99abc4d546bb52a008a25e64a29d85e

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 04/16/2018 12:22 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:58:22AM -0400, gdb-buildbot@sergiodj.net wrote:
>> Unfortunately it seems that there is a breakage on GDB.
>>
>> Commit title: 'Remove m88k support'
>> Revision: c2bf1eecf99abc4d546bb52a008a25e64a29d85e
> [snip]
>> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/m88k-tdep.c: In function void _initialize_m88k_tdep():
>> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/m88k-tdep.c:867:21: error: bfd_arch_m88k was not declared in this scope
>>    gdbarch_register (bfd_arch_m88k, m88k_gdbarch_init, NULL);
> 
> Yes, removing the bfd support for m88k will do that..
> 
> m88k has been obsolete since 2016-09-27, ie. it was obsolete in
> binutils-2.28 and should have been removed for binutils-2.29.
> 

No point in keeping the GDB support then.  We have an OpenBSD/m88k
host/native port, but I don't expect that anyone will be using that
as cross development host, so I think we should just remove it.

> sparc-aout and sparc-coff, m68k-aout and m68k-coff, sh5 and sh64,
> sh-symbianelf, vax-bsd and vax-ultrix, w65, we32k, m88k, h8500,
> h8300-coff, ieee695, tandem, newsos3, netware, and tahoe all
> went today.
> 
> i860, i960, bout, adobe and icoff targets disappeared last week.
> 

GDB also dropped support for a few of the above in the past
years, including completely dropping support for a.out targets.

Looks like it's gdb spring cleaning time too then.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves