From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18365 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2010 15:35:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 18344 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Aug 2010 15:35:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:35:29 +0000 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7IFZ8IL021327 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:08 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7IFZ7d4008347; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:08 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7IFZ6Xi021535; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:06 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id E5E9A378196; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:35:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Pierre Muller , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Your INTERMEDIATE_ENCODING patch for Solaris References: <20100731162500.32FAE5664F4@henry1.codesourcery.com> <20100817184407.GC3599@adacore.com> <20100818101406.GA2903@adacore.com> <000001cb3ee3$bbbaf040$3330d0c0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <20100818145218.GB2903@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:35:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100818145218.GB2903@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:52:19 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00301.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> IMO, investing too much energy into making GDB work with a "difficult" Joel> (aka broken) libiconv is a waste of precious time. Perhaps it's time Joel> for us to cut the losses and decide that building GDB requires GNU Joel> libiconv. I was first in line asking that GDB could be built without Joel> GNU libiconv, but I can see from experience how much of a mess that is... Joel> ? I think we're ok. The hard part is already done -- all the PHONY_ICONV support code and typedefs and indirections. This last bit is just tinkering with the configury a little to get a decent result by default. FWIW, all this current change means is that Solaris users will see escape sequences more often than they might want to. Tom