Re: Fix compilation of 64-bit gdb 7.7 on Solaris

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Hi Joel,

> I'd like us to have ACLs as well for the GDB wiki, but I haven't had
> time to work on that, yet. So you should be able to edit as soon as
> you have an account.

right, worked just fine.

>> More questions here: this is actually a bfd issue, but neither binutils
>> nor gdb has a component for that.  I could file it under gdb/build,
>> though.  Btw., bugzilla currently lacks the gdb 7.7 version.  Could you
>> please add that, too?
>
> Sure, gdb/build sounds fine to me.
>
> Regarding gdb-7.7, I'll have to ask Tom. In the meantime, can you
> set the field to "HEAD"? I'll change it once the new version is added.

Since I could file the PR only today, I could use the new 7.7 version.

>> And should I add the PR reference to the ChangeLog entry?  It's not in
>> the mainline and binutils 2.24 checkins, obviously.
>
> If you don't mind. I don't know whether they'll want it for binutils
> 2.24. For master, if you don't mind updating the ChangeLog (no need
> to send a patch), that'd be great.

I've done it for mainline, not yet for the binutils 2.24 branch.

>> > to this fix. I will prepare the wiki page by adding a section for 7.7.1
>> > where you'll be able to document your fix.
>> 
>> Ok.  Please let me know once the page is there.  I'll wait with the
>> commit until then.
>
> It's done :).

I've now filed the PR (build/16550), applied the patch to the gdb 7.7
branch and updated the mainline ChangeLog with the PR reference.

	Rainer

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