Re: Difficulty for community involvment in gdb

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

Just FYI,


When I went to close your two bug reports the first thing I did was try 
to find the SID bug-tracking system so that I could point you at it. 
Unfortunatly that doesn't exist.  Looking at the e-mail exchange it 
would appear you were unfortunatly given the impression that this was a 
GDB problem which it isn't, sigh.

>    It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of
>   tools with one command.  To build all of the tools contained herein,
>   run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.:

I'll try to clarify the comment in that file.


One thing that would help though.  What lead you to check out both SID 
and GDB in a single source tree?  I'm guessing that this is documented 
somewhere and hence, would like to locate that documentation so that 
those responsible can be informed of the problems you encountered.

> So to a newcomer to this stuff, it would seem that bdf, sid etc are
>    "part of gdb". It's quite difficult to get started with the cvs.
>     Additionally, the gnats interface is IMHO not as good as bugzilla.
>    The only thing I can do, not being a developer, seems to be to
>    create bug reports; I can't add comments to them.
>     I think little problems like the ones I'm having inhibit the
>    advantage that gdb could get from greater community involvment. What
>    I'm really trying to do is to get gdb to work better with threads
>    under Linux. This has been a problem for several years (I
>    contributed a patch for this about two years ago). I think the time
>    it takes for these things to get fixed will be longer if it is more
>    difficult for people to get involved.


Regarding Linux threads, you may want to just download/build a current 
GDB.  More bugs then are worth mentioning have been fixed.

With PRMS vs Bugzilla, it is a decision we live with.  I think the time 
to review it is when GDB+BINUITLS get merged with GCC.  If you would 
like a gnats account that can be arranged.

	Andrew





	Andrew