Re: [PATCH] Move arch/tdesc.h to common/common-tdesc.h

[Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>]

> On 7 Feb 2018, at 09:32, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Yao,
>> 
>> sorry, i misunderstood you.  You are right cleaning up gdbservers Makefile
>> would be better.  I'm currently pretty occupied, but I can give it a try later
>> on.  Let's see what I can do.
>> 
> 
> Never mind, I do think I misread email everyday :)
> 
> FAOD, both GDB and GDBserver needs clean up.  Something had already
> happened on this topic,
> 
>  f38307f [RFC] Replicate src dir in build dir
> 
> we have arch/ directory in gdb and gdbserver build tree after this patch.  This
> patch was written in a way that is easy to create other directories.  I didn't
> follow up this patch to create nat/ target/ etc directories in gdb and gdbserver
> build tree because of other assignments.  Later, Tom changed it
> 
>  b22c88c A simpler way to make the "arch" build directory
> 
> I didn't follow that patch series, so I don't know how to extend existing
> mechanism to create other directories.  Note that Tom's patch only changes
> gdb, gdbserver still uses the approach added in f38307f.  I hope both gdb
> and gdbserver have the same approach ultimately.
> 

Agree with the discussion above. Having a common/ dir in the build directory
Would be nice.
Been taking a quick look at this today, and I think I’ve got something working.
Will post as a new patch a bit later.

Alan.