Re: Proposal to revert the gnulib update patch

Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-09-04T18:04:25Z

On Tuesday, September 04 2018, Jonah Graham wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 01:46, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to hear your opinions.
>
> In the short term it would make my life easier. However at some point
> c11 should be allowed for GDB source. If gdb maintainers want to make
> that change now CDT will figure out how to manage.

I absolutely agree we should be moving to more recent standards *and*
compilers. My initial plan is to fix these two gnulib bugs, but I won't
be fully available this week and don't want to cause inconveniences to
other people who are compiling GDB with either an old compiler or on
mingw.

> I have put in a request to Eclipse Infrastructure to get a newer GCC
> on our build machines already:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538538

Thanks, that is great.

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