From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8117 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2004 18:42:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8090 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2004 18:42:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2004 18:42:49 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGMgG-0001cr-Ha; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:42:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:43:00 -0000 From: 'Daniel Jacobowitz' To: Marcus Rosen Cc: "'gdb@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: compatible versions of gdb6.1 and binutils? Message-ID: <20040421184243.GA5956@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Marcus Rosen , "'gdb@sources.redhat.com'" References: <10EE351D89AE1F488B426AC91EF6EDAB0120C82A@server-1.videolocus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10EE351D89AE1F488B426AC91EF6EDAB0120C82A@server-1.videolocus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:06:45PM -0400, Marcus Rosen wrote: > > I can see that I would need to checkout the sources from cvs myself. But my > confusion has to do with how to pick what versions to grab. I expect that I > would want to grab the gdb alias module at the 6.1 release tag. But now I'm > not sure how to pick which versions of the naked-ld, naked-gas and > naked-binutils to grab. Grabbing from the head doesn't seem like an option > since I need to have code that is at least thought to be stable and it would > be nearly impossible for me to upgrade my versions of the sources later if I > couldn't generate diffs against a tag. What I was hoping was that gdb > depended on a specific "release" of the shared components so that it would > be possible to pick a common baseline between gdb and binutils. So I'm > wondering if anyone can suggest how I would go about picking these versions, > that is unless I got something completely wrong? There is no depending on specific "releases". They all live on HEAD; at one point GDB 6.1 branched; at another point binutils 2.15 branched. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer