From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9194 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2006 04:04:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 9185 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Mar 2006 04:04:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from yosemite.airs.com (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (205.217.158.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:04:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 12659 invoked by uid 10); 27 Mar 2006 04:04:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 31034 invoked by uid 500); 27 Mar 2006 04:03:57 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Jim Blandy , sje@cup.hp.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove gdb/nlm subdirectory References: <200603240102.RAA18110@hpsje.cup.hp.com> <8f2776cb0603232024u163c75edm20eb01ff1d476d18@mail.gmail.com> <20060324043008.GA5092@nevyn.them.org> <20060324144727.GA15703@nevyn.them.org> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20060324144727.GA15703@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00306.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz 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 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