Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 6.8 release process created!

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-01T01:16:13Z

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:19:57PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi Thiago,
>
> > I just noticed that gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc64-low.c is missing in the
> > branch. gdbserver doesn't compile on Power systems because of that.
>
> Thanks for letting me know. So far, I don't understand how this could
> have happened. I did the following command (from sourceware):
>
> % cvs -f -d /cvs/src rtag \
> -D "2008-02-26 10:00-gmt" gdb_6_8-2008-02-26-branchpoint gdb

This is probably CVS breaking, but I can tell you the cause if you
haven't noticed it - Ulrich deleted the file on HEAD after the
branchpoint. It's probably a quirk of -D, which has never been one of
CVS's strong points.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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