From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32337 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2009 16:36:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 32292 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Aug 2009 16:36:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f216.google.com) (209.85.219.216) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:36:06 +0000 Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so1455626ewy.24 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.102.12 with SMTP id z12mr4651928ebb.5.1250354163123; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm10682158eyg.22.2009.08.15.09.36.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A86E723.3000602@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:36:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Wildenhues , Dave Korn , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/N] The big bump References: <20090815112928.GB5396@gmx.de> <20090815113356.GD20172@gmx.de> <4A86CC24.409@gmail.com> <20090815160401.GB21850@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20090815160401.GB21850@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2009-08/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > I have never ever gotten a full src tree to cleanly build with > --enable-maintainer-mode, and IIRC not even without. I've always just > worked on the git binutils-gdb mirror. The rest of the tree has IMHO > lacked lots of love at least on the build system side. If you tell me > that it is used actively, and they are generally willing to see updated > build machinery (and there is somebody to review patches to this end, > timely, too), then I would look into this task. But last time I looked > I didn't think a drift apart would make things any worse; for example, > Autoconf versions used were quite inconsistent already. Well, the winsup/ directory is pretty heavily used, winsup == cygwin + mingw! I can help with the testing if you can help with the patching; winsup depends on newlib, so I can test those together for you. I think Joseph's cut-down list looks about right for the rest. cheers, DaveK