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> IIUC, Eli has already fixed the issues I pointed out at:
> 
>  http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDJGPP
> 
> You could start there: might be worth cleaning up that page (maybe
> even including instructions on how to build GDB on DOS < 7.0, not
> under Windows, if people care about that)

Unfortunately, GDB will not currently build on plain DOS, due to
file-name collisions in libdecnumber and in gdb/gnulib.  It is on my
todo to fix that, but doing so will require a non-trivial amount of
jumping through the hoops, and I have more important todo items before
that, like adding support for libexpat, syscalls (what's with that
patch, btw?), record and replay target, and Python.

> and extending it with testsuite-running-HOWTO instructions.

Yes, adding that would be a good idea.