From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24709 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2017 17:20:58 -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 24684 invoked by uid 89); 8 Oct 2017 17:20:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=eli, zaretskii, Eli, Zaretskii X-HELO: smtp.polymtl.ca Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca (HELO smtp.polymtl.ca) (132.207.4.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 08 Oct 2017 17:20:47 +0000 Received: from simark.ca (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id v98HKeoC028769 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:20:45 -0400 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id 376B81E53E; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from simark.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CBA1E515; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:20:28 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 17:20:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't try building gdb against guile-2.2 In-Reply-To: <83y3olsgty.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171008164703.12953-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> <83y3olsgty.fsf@gnu.org> Message-ID: X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.0 X-Poly-FromMTA: (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) at Sun, 8 Oct 2017 17:20:40 +0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 On 2017-10-08 13:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Simon Marchi >> Cc: Simon Marchi >> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 12:47:03 -0400 >> >> GDB currently doesn't build with Guile 2.2 (see PR 21104). If one has >> both Guile 2.2 and 2.0 installed, GDB will pick up Guile 2.2 first and >> fail building. Until somebody does the work of adapting the GDB code >> to >> Guile 2.2, we should not try using it. This patch therefore removes >> it >> from configure. >> >> gdb/ChangeLog: >> >> * configure.ac (try_guile_versions): Remove guile-2.2. >> * configure: Regenerate. > > Should we perhaps have a configure-time option, by default off, to use > Guile 2.2? Otherwise, how would that "somebody" work on fixing this > problem, if they cannot even try building with Guile 2.2? > > Thanks. They can pass --with-guile=guile-2.2. try_guile_versions, AFAIU, contains the version to try by default if the version to use is not explicitly passed (--with-guile or --with-guile=yes). Simon