From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19771 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2006 21:19:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 19759 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2006 21:19:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:19:47 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F4POC-0003jD-LF; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:19:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:19:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Girish Shilamkar Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdbserver version Message-ID: <20060201211944.GA14235@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Girish Shilamkar , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <1138609455.3225.14.camel@krypton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1138609455.3225.14.camel@krypton> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:54:15PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote: > Hi, > gdbserver Makefile consists of following line: > > # Perhaps should come from parent Makefile > VERSION = gdbserver-4.12.3 > > Why is it different from version number of gdb i.e. 6.4, 6.3 etc? > And I hope gdbserver having same version number will work gdb's with > different version i.e. gdbserver is from which build (gdb 6.4 build or > gdb 6.3 build) won't matter if gdbserver version no. are same ? That version is, as you noticed on gdb-patches, not currently used. Thus it hasn't been updated in a long long time. I don't think gdbserver needs its own version number; it should just share GDB's. I'll respond to the patch separately. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery