Re: Proposal to revert the gnulib update patch

Tom Tromey
2018-09-04T18:09:32Z

>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> writes:

Sergio> Since the main reason for updating gnulib was to fix PR gdb/23558, as a
Sergio> workaround, I propose that we backport just the upstream gnulib patch
Sergio> that fixes the problem:

Sergio> a96d2e67052c879b1bcc5bc461722beac75fc372

Sergio> I'd like to hear your opinions.

I think this would be fine.

We don't want to be permanently stuck on an old gnulib, but on the other
hand there's plenty of time in the next cycle to fix this. Meanwhile
your proposal would unbreak things for people.

One thing that would be good would be to file a bug documenting what's
needed, with links and such. In the past tasks like this have gotten
"lost" -- information being theoretically available in the archives
somewhere, but in practice very hard to find.

Tom