From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12040 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2007 18:22:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 12025 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2007 18:22:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:22:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 15822 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2007 18:22:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 5 Mar 2007 18:22:01 -0000 To: Michael Eager Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Upgrading from old gdb version References: <45EB3B6A.30504@eagercon.com> <20070305014619.GA19913@caradoc.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20070305014619.GA19913@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:46:19 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2007-03/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:34:34PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote: >> Can someone suggest a starting point? > > Not really - last time I had to do this, I found it easiest to take a > working target from the current GDB and redo my older port based on > that model. I concur with that. The New Way to do ports is much simpler and cleaner; if you're coming from the 5.3 era, it's better to just start from scratch.