Re: GDB 6.8.92 available for testing

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>]

On 10/01/2009 07:11 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> You are forgetting about the 3rd parties, which apply distros as their
>> basis.
>
> Just to be clear: No one has any obligation towards you or us.

Right, but ...

My definition of a bug is "something which doesn't work as advertised"
--enable-system-readline is of this kind

> We all
> make the code available in some form, but we all have local modifications
> that we have not submitted for one reason or another.  You probably have
> your local modifications too, so why not just add Red Hat's patch in
> your list,
That's what I already did.

> and then work on helping us fixing the problem that causes
> this patch to be necessary?
I am more than willing to assist you in doing so, but this is the long 
term solution.

A short term solution is to apply one of the proposals to upstream gdb, 
even though they are "hackerish".

Being perfectionistic and forcing users to cope with known bugs isn't 
helpful to anybody. Neither to the FSF, to upstream gdb, rtems.org nor 
OS distributors nor other arbitrary users (users: here: people building 
gdb from sources).

Ralf