From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Erland Lewin Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Difficulty for community involvment in gdb Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B686235.30809@cygnus.com> References: <3B684397.40704@voxi.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00008.html 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