From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 63799 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2018 18:27:22 -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 63780 invoked by uid 89); 29 Aug 2018 18:27:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=numbering X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:27:20 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA71140241C0; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5282202704E; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR build/23568] Fix gdb-7.12.1 MinGW/MSYS build issue To: SiZiOUS , Simon Marchi References: <56c5911c-e0ba-5a17-64bb-3634af60a07d@gmail.com> <18eaf339-ca0a-061c-4a17-b837e6ef81a2@redhat.com> <83wosa2yos.fsf@gnu.org> <56153263-c5e6-45ce-8629-c5a77cf17f5b@gmail.com> <92136d29-0bec-7fcf-23c6-26dd4608dbd8@gmail.com> Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:27:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <92136d29-0bec-7fcf-23c6-26dd4608dbd8@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00764.txt.bz2 On 08/29/2018 05:59 PM, SiZiOUS wrote: > > > But in fact, GDB 7.11.1 is confirmed to work. As this version isn't compiling under MinGW for some reason, I updated to the latest 7.x version, and the only issue I had was this little build problem. > I've not tested GDB now, so I don't know if it's work or not with the Dreamcast. > > For the 8.x, I opened a bug about building on MinGW, but seems to be a similar reason. I think you're confused with GDB's release numbering. The set of 7.x releases are not all part of a single maintenance "gdb 7" tree/family. Likewise, set of 8.x releases are not all part of a single maintenance "gdb 8" tree/family. I.e., 7.12 is not a maintenance release of 7.11. 7.11 is not a maintenance release of 7.10. etc. GDB 7.12 was just as much of an increase over 7.11, as 8.0 was over 7.12. It just happened that when we got all the way up to "12" we though that that would be a good time to roll over to 8.0, because small numbers are nice. Maintenance bugfix releases are instead the z in x.y.z, as in 7.11.1, 7.11.2, etc. Currently, we're about to release gdb 8.2, so the 8.2.x branch in git is open for regression bugfixes. Build fixes like yours would be a good fit too. It's possible to merge fixes to older branches, but it's not very usual. As we move on to newer releases, the older branches tend to become unmaintained. Thanks, Pedro Alves