Re: [Fwd: native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11]

[mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)]

> I think the most useful thing to find is a copy of the relevant ABI. 
> With that it should be possible to revamp the code, bringing it up to 
> scratch.

I'm not close to that yet.

. readline does not build with gcc.  I decided to tackle this first.
  I'm creating some patches for the standalone readline and I will
  submit them to Chet Ramey, the readline maintainer.  If he likes them,
  then I will ask Elena to put them in our local readline as well.

. I have to decide which compilers to build gdb with.  There are
  four compilers to choose from: gcc, the bundled cc, the unbundled
  ansi c compiler, and the aC++ compiler.

  The bundled cc isn't even installed on the HP test drive machines
  so I expect that I will just punt on that.  I think that all the
  others need to work though.

. I have to decide which compilers to build test programs with,
  and figure out which debug formats make sense to test.  Also there is
  32-bit versus 64-bit and pre-standard-c++-library versus
  standard-c++-library.

. I have to do something about all the little cheats in migchain and
  migbat where they are not really set up for multiple architectures
  yet.  I don't really have to fix them, but I have to get them to the
  point where I can do work with them.

And here's a big one:

. What do we do about hpux 10.20?

  There's no hpux 10.20 in the HP test drive pool.  HP has a good reason
  for this: they discontinued hpux 10.20 on 2002-06-30, and obsoleted it
  on 2003-06-30!

    http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,5143,00.html

  All of hpux10* is no longer supported by HP.  So we have no maintainer
  and no machine.  But we do have a recent PR, PR gdb/1411.

  I would like to give hppa*-hp-hpux10* the boot.  Put it through the
  obsoletion process, and then remove any test code which is
  hpux10-specific, and then not worry about breaking hpux10 while I am
  fixing hpux11.

  What do you think of that?

Michael C