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From: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:44:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: gnulib's errno module was imported
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Is it possible to back out dirfd, and then add to GDB whatever glue
>> (borrowed from gnulib) that's needed to support LSB 3.0?  IOW, can we
>> support LSB 3.0 in our own code, either inspired or stolen from
>> gnulib?
>
> We can do that but I suspect the value of doing that.  How important is
> it to keep GDB head compatible with LSB 3.0 which was released on 2005?
> Maybe distro people are aware of this, but I don't know.

I'm not opposed to something more lightweight than importing gnulib's
dirfd, but RHEL 4 (LSB 3.0) is in extended support through 2017, so I
think there's still value in LSB 3.0 compatibility.

Cheers,
Gregory