From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23364 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2007 19:26:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 23353 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2007 19:26:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from shell4.bayarea.net (HELO shell4.bayarea.net) (209.128.82.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:26:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 5791 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2007 11:26:42 -0800 Received: from 209-128-106-254.bayarea.net (HELO ?192.168.20.7?) (209.128.106.254) by shell4.bayarea.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2007 11:26:42 -0800 Message-ID: <45EC6EEF.80508@eagercon.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:26:00 -0000 From: Michael Eager User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Blandy CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Upgrading from old gdb version References: <45EB3B6A.30504@eagercon.com> <20070305014619.GA19913@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:34:34PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote: >>> Can someone suggest a starting point? >> Not really - last time I had to do this, I found it easiest to take a >> working target from the current GDB and redo my older port based on >> that model. > > I concur with that. The New Way to do ports is much simpler and > cleaner; if you're coming from the 5.3 era, it's better to just start > from scratch. Thanks Daniel & Jim. I'm going to look at the Sparc port as a base for re-implementing the target. -- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077