Re: Adding binutils to the GNU Toolchain buildbot on sourceware

Luis Machado via Gdb
2022-04-25T12:17:34Z

On 4/25/22 11:43, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> As a general comment, I think we should have a single buildbot entry for the
>> whole of binutils-gdb.
>
> Perhaps!
>
>> Given changes to bfd and opcodes can affect gdb, why not build gdb alongside
>> the other tools? You don't need to run the gdb testsuite, which should make
>> things much more deterministic.
>
> But this is not an argument for building gdb as a part of testing binutils.
> This is an argument for building & testing gdb if binutils changes.
> That is: an additional buildbot job

An additional buildbot job for gdb/gdbserver would be fine. It's just
that a single build for everything is simpler, in my opinion.

Is the idea to revive the old buildbot we had for GDB, but for binutils?