From: Nicholas Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>,
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Synchronizing Binutils and GDB releases
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F21C4B.4000109@redhat.com> (raw)
Hi Tristan, Hi Joel,
What do you think to the idea of synchronizing GDB and BINUTILS
releases ?
The idea was raised at this year's GNU Tool's Cauldron. It would
help users who manage combined toolchain sources. Currently if they
want to create a combined tree of specific releases of the gcc, gdb and
binutils they have to choose which version of the BFD library to use.
But if they find a bug and want to check in a fix, they have to remember
that there are actually two versions of the BFD sources to patch.
Multiply this by a number of different GDB/BINUTILS release
combintations and this becomes a maintenance headache.
If we had a combined release there would be only one branch in the
git repository and things would be a lot simpler. We could even extend
this idea by arranging for the release to happen slightly before each
GCC release. Then GCC version X could could say that it works best with
GDB/BINUTILS version Y.
Cheers
Nick
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2014-08-18 15:31 Nicholas Clifton [this message]
2014-08-18 15:42 ` Joel Sherrill
2014-08-18 16:09 ` Joel Brobecker
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