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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:19:14 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: GDB 5.3 branch cut out
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > I built from gdb-5.3.tar.gz off some GNU mirror in the UK. It built fine.
> > It have a non-empty readline/config.h file. This is against DJGPP CVS
> > from a week or so ago with fileutils, sh-utils and textutils built with
> > the multiple-consecutive-slash patch for symlinks applied.
> 
> On what platform did you build it?  If it's not W2K/XP, perhaps what
> Andrew saw is specific to those systems?

Yes, good point. I built on Windows '98 SE.

> > The test suite worked fine.
> 
> How did you run it, exactly?

As directed in the DJGPP-specific readme, of course. ;)

    cd gdb/testsuite
    sh ../config/djgpp/djcheck.sh
 
> > Any objections, if I prepare packages?
> 
> None whatsoever, please go ahead.  Don't forget to include bfdsymify in
> the binaries and sources, though.

Yes, will do.
 
> > I was also thinking of doing new packages for gdb 5.2.1, since there are
> > no info docs in the binary package.
> 
> I don't see any reason to waste our scarce resources on old versions.  If
> the new GDB 5.3 binary release comes with Info docs, as it should, we could
> simply tell users to upgrade.

I've done new packages of gdb 5.2.1 now. Still, it was good practice for gdb
5.3. ;)

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]