From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26192 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2014 21:44:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26177 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2014 21:44:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:44:54 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8PLiq9Y009249 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:44:52 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8PLioR3007355; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:44:51 -0400 Message-ID: <54248CD1.8000801@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:44:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergio Durigan Junior CC: GDB Patches , Gary Benson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for "rtld_" prefix on solib-svr4 probes References: <1411581801-19126-1-git-send-email-sergiodj@redhat.com> <5423F08B.1040409@redhat.com> <87bnq3h1gf.fsf_-_@redhat.com> <54248579.8030606@redhat.com> <87r3yzfl86.fsf@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87r3yzfl86.fsf@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00750.txt.bz2 On 09/25/2014 10:23 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > On Thursday, September 25 2014, Pedro Alves wrote: > >> There's RHEL (at least, per the comment) 6.4 too, which isn't EOL'ed, >> though. It's reasonable to expect that people may still want to >> build/test upstream gdb on those? > > Damn, I forgot to talk about RHEL. > > But yeah, RHEL-6.x is not EOL'ed, but the GDB that comes with it is from > Red Hat as well, and contains all the necessary patches to deal with > whatever "internal idiosyncrasy" that it may need. OTOH, I know Gary > has been using RHEL-6.5 to test his upstream patches, so to answer your > question, it is still possible that people may still want to buid/test > upstream GDB there. > > My opinion is that we shouldn't need to worry about internals of each > distro (I know we *have to do that* sometimes, but that's not an > excuse), so I still hold the cleanup patch for approval :-). There's the system GDB, that is usually maintained by the distro, but then it's quite often the case that people build and ship their own tools on top of the distro, bypassing the system tools. I tend to view supporting older-ish distros that people might still be using like the proprietary OSs we "support" (in a sense). I think that just as we'd accept a patch that makes GDB work better on Windows 7 OOTB (e.g., to work around some debug API issue), even though there's already Windows 8 out there, I think patches that make GDB work better OOTB on a bit older (but still in use) distros are fine, as long as they don't get in the way of progress and don't impose a big maintenance burden. IMHO, there's no harm in leaving this particular bit in a while longer. But I certainly won't cry over this. I'm not personally affected. If others are fine with yanking this out, I'll be fine with it too. Thanks, Pedro Alves