From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27053 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2013 09:17:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 27029 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2013 09:17:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.eu.adacore.com Received: from Unknown (HELO smtp.eu.adacore.com) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:15:31 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFCD26AB7C8; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:15:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.eu.adacore.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id i9PLSZUK1IC7; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:15:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from ulanbator.act-europe.fr (ulanbator.act-europe.fr [10.10.1.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 712EE26AB7B9; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:15:22 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: Release 2.24 From: Tristan Gingold In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:49:00 -0000 Cc: Joel Brobecker , Richard Sandiford , , Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <2741C968-721F-46E9-A2BA-E4B0F64C444B@adacore.com> <20130918213245.GO3132@adacore.com> <20131118172117.GD3481@adacore.com> To: Maciej W. Rozycki X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00758.txt.bz2 Hello, if I understand correctly, the patches aren't for binutils (just for gdb). = Is that correct ? Tristan. On Nov 21, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wro= te: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Joel Brobecker wrote: >=20 >>> I see 2.24 is about to roll out, so I'll try to find some time this wee= k=20 >>> to make the necessary adjustments for a matching GDB 7.6.2 maintenance= =20 >>> release -- assuming as per your recent statement, that making 7.7 can t= ake=20 >>> a while yet. >>=20 >> What are your parameters? I've started working on the scripts this >> weekend, and unfortunately for me, I am bursting with ideas of things >> to try out - this is going to be helpful for the future, but not so >> good for the present. I am planning on working on it an hour every day, >> so I should have branching hopefully done soon, and then at least >> pre-release creation done right after that. >>=20 >> To explain a bit the delay, the switch to git is more than just >> changing some configuration-management commands in the script. >> Git opens up the door for doing things a little differently. >> For instance, I will have the scripts sends the email for me, >> instead of me doing some tedious copy/pasting - this is now possible >> because I don't have to be afraid of losing the connection to >> sourceware while creating the branch from a repo on my laptop. >> Same thing for GPG signing. >>=20 >> If the delay is unbearable to your platform, then we'll need to >> temporary re-open the CVS, and produce an extra release from there. >> Or the alternative is to produce a release by hand, but that would >> take much more time, I think. Neither of these 2 options are >> attractive, so it'd be better if we could wait for me to be ready. >=20 > The 2.24 release will break debugging of MIPS16 and microMIPS binaries.= =20=20 > Here are 7.6 branch testsuite results for these two ISA variations=20 > respectively: