Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 16.1 released!

[Andrew Burgess via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> writes:

> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
>
>>> >> If/when this is merged I do plan to back-port this to the gdb-16-branch,
>>> >> but given the build following the suggested steps works fine, I'm not
>>> >> sure this justifies a follow up release.  But I wanted to raise this for
>>> >> discussion.
>>> >
>>> > I fear that using a relative path to configure when building out-of-tree
>>> > might be fairly common. Thankfully, the workaround is relatively
>>> > straightforward, so once users get the answer, they can move forward
>>> > quickly, but getting this answer may not be straightforward.
>>> >
>>> > It might be worth doing a first corrective release right away.
>>> 
>>> The bfd fix was approved and merged to master.  I have also pushed the
>>> fix to the gdb-16-branch.  If we did want a corrective fix then we have
>>> everything we need in place.
>>
>> Great news!
>>
>> What's the general sentiment towards the corrective release?
>> Do people agree that it's worth the effort doing on now?
>
> I don't want to impose unnecessary additional work on you, but my
> feeling is that a corrective release would be a good idea given that
> configuring using '../configure' isn't a totally crazy thing to do.
>
> But would be nice to see what others think.

And we should decide what we want to do about:

  https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/CAOp6jLYD0g-GUsx7jhO3g8H_4pHkB6dkh51cbyDT-5yMfQwu+A@mail.gmail.com

Before making any follow on release.

Thanks,
Andrew