Re: [PATCH] Remove gdb/nlm subdirectory

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> Well, in all the time I've been working on GDB, I've never seen a user
> question about Netware, a GNATS PR about Netware, or a developer commit
> tested on Netware.  To build it you need a Netware-provided SDK; I
> don't know if those are still obtainable.

I'm in favor of removing it, but I just want to note that the last
sentence is not correct.  You can build the gdb/nlm code using an
i386-elf-gcc and nlmconv.  No non-GNU tools are required.

However, it is true that the current sources won't build without
modification.  The configure script looks for config/CPU/gdbserve.mt,
and no such files exist.  The only two targets which ever worked were
i386 and PPC, and the required gdbserve.mt files were removed with
this change:

2003-02-05  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>

	Remove orphaned hosts, targets and files.
        ...

So since then it has been difficult to build the NLM debug server.  I
think the lack of complaints about this is a compelling argument that
the code is unused.

Ian