From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30449 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2006 15:49:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 30439 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2006 15:49:20 -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; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:49:18 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FRtD1-0006L2-SJ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:49:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:58:00 -0000 From: 'Daniel Jacobowitz' To: Dave Korn Cc: 'Bruce Dubbs' , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Building gdb from source Message-ID: <20060407154915.GA24300@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Korn , 'Bruce Dubbs' , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20060407153236.GA23709@nevyn.them.org> <000001c65a59$7d25db60$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c65a59$7d25db60$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> 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: 2006-04/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > On 07 April 2006 16:33, 'Daniel Jacobowitz' wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:25:55PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> ? Is this because releases could be coming from branches that were > >> branched at very different times? Would it have been more reasonable if I > >> had said "releases that are based on roughly-contemporary branches"? > > > > But there are no such releases. > > > Ok, I give up, I haven't got the faintest idea what you're talking about. I > can't even parse that. Binutils and GDB releases are branched at unpredictably different times. How close in time they are doesn't matter if there's been an interface change in between. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery