Re: GDB ARIndex cleanup

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Pierre Muller" <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
> Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, <gdb@sourceware.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:13:19 +0100
> 
> > > 3) I also recompiled doschk program
> > > so that the list of incompatibilities with
> > > the DOS limitations is generated again...
> > >
> > > Eli, there are probably several directories that we could
> > > disregard for this, but I think that
> > > there are also real issues left.
> > 
> > There shouldn't be any.  But to see that, you need to prepare a GDB
> > tarball, then untar it using djunpack.bat as explained in
> > gdb/config/djgpp/README, and _then_ run doschk on the resulting tree.
> > That's because the file-name conflicts are supposed to be solved by
> > remapping in gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst, which djunpack.bat uses.
> 
>   The question is: 
> how do you prepare a tarball that contains only the directories required 
> by DJGPP?

There's no such thing as a tarball with only the directories required
by DJGPP.  You need a normal GDB tarball, like the ones prepared when
GDB is officially released.  djunpack.bat is designed to work with
such a general-purpose tarball.  You should also be able to use the
snapshot tarballs you can find on sourceware.

>   The list of problems is available on the web page: 
> http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/ari/ari.doschk.bug

Thanks, I will take a look.