* 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
@ 2012-04-12 15:33 Joel Brobecker
2012-04-12 16:28 ` Paul Smith
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From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-12 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb
Hello,
It's been almost 3 months since the 7.4 release, and it's time to think
about whether we want to make a corrective release or not. The tentative
date is Apr 23rd. We have a few changes already in the branch, are the
problems serious enough to warrant a release? Any other changes that
should go in the 7.4 branch (please, only refer to very very safe fixes,
or fixes to critical bugs)?
Thank you,
--
Joel
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 15:33 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release Joel Brobecker
@ 2012-04-12 16:28 ` Paul Smith
2012-04-12 17:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-12 17:34 ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Paul Smith @ 2012-04-12 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Brobecker; +Cc: gdb
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 08:33 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It's been almost 3 months since the 7.4 release, and it's time to think
> about whether we want to make a corrective release or not. The tentative
> date is Apr 23rd. We have a few changes already in the branch, are the
> problems serious enough to warrant a release? Any other changes that
> should go in the 7.4 branch (please, only refer to very very safe fixes,
> or fixes to critical bugs)?
I would love to see a fix for the issue of the build failing if you
don't have makeinfo installed... I think it's already fixed but I don't
know if it was applied to the branch. I can look up the bug # if
needed.
I have GDB embedded in a complete cross-compiler build suite and this
failure means I have to configure the build servers specially to install
makeinfo (normally it's not installed). So it's a small thing, in
general, but it has a disproportionately large impact on my personal
setup.
Cheers!
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 16:28 ` Paul Smith
@ 2012-04-12 17:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-12 18:04 ` Paul Smith
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From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-12 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Smith; +Cc: gdb
> I would love to see a fix for the issue of the build failing if you
> don't have makeinfo installed... I think it's already fixed but I don't
> know if it was applied to the branch. I can look up the bug # if
> needed.
I am not opposed to this patch in principle, but a taking a look at
the patch would allow us to evaluate its impact. Can you repost or
send a link to that patch?
In the meantime, it seems much easier to just apply the patch locally
to your sources rather than wait for 7.4.1 or 7.5...
--
Joel
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 15:33 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release Joel Brobecker
2012-04-12 16:28 ` Paul Smith
@ 2012-04-12 17:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-12 17:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-13 8:07 ` Pierre Muller
2012-04-13 13:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
3 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2012-04-12 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb; +Cc: Joel Brobecker
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On Thursday 12 April 2012 11:33:01 Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It's been almost 3 months since the 7.4 release, and it's time to think
> about whether we want to make a corrective release or not. The tentative
> date is Apr 23rd. We have a few changes already in the branch, are the
> problems serious enough to warrant a release? Any other changes that
> should go in the 7.4 branch (please, only refer to very very safe fixes,
> or fixes to critical bugs)?
there's a sim patch i think would be useful on the branch (fixes a build issue
reported by someone shortly after the 7.4 release). i haven't committed to a
branch on sourceware.org before, so is there anything i should be aware of ?
a quick search on the gdb site didn't seem to turn up anything.
-mike
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 17:34 ` Mike Frysinger
@ 2012-04-12 17:42 ` Joel Brobecker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-12 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Frysinger; +Cc: gdb
> there's a sim patch i think would be useful on the branch (fixes a
> build issue reported by someone shortly after the 7.4 release). i
> haven't committed to a branch on sourceware.org before, so is there
> anything i should be aware of ? a quick search on the gdb site didn't
> seem to turn up anything.
It's the same as on HEAD. Just checkout the branch, merge the patch,
and send an email to gdb-patches to confirm the commit.
--
Joel
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 17:18 ` Joel Brobecker
@ 2012-04-12 18:04 ` Paul Smith
2012-04-12 19:14 ` Joel Brobecker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Paul Smith @ 2012-04-12 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Brobecker; +Cc: gdb
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 10:17 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I am not opposed to this patch in principle, but a taking a look at
> the patch would allow us to evaluate its impact. Can you repost or
> send a link to that patch?
Looks like it's already fixed in the trunk:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861
> In the meantime, it seems much easier to just apply the patch locally
> to your sources rather than wait for 7.4.1 or 7.5...
Well, I thought of that but the patch is to configure.ac so after I
applied it I would have to re-run autoconf to get a new configure
script... the cure is worse than the disease!! :-)
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 18:04 ` Paul Smith
@ 2012-04-12 19:14 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-13 13:11 ` Jan Kratochvil
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-12 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Smith; +Cc: gdb
> Looks like it's already fixed in the trunk:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861
And following the thread, it looks it was also fixed on the 7.4
branch. Can you give one of the 7.4.x snapshots a shot to confirm it?
for instance @ ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch,
you have gdb-7.4.0.20120412.tar.bz2
--
Joel
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* RE: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 15:33 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release Joel Brobecker
2012-04-12 16:28 ` Paul Smith
2012-04-12 17:34 ` Mike Frysinger
@ 2012-04-13 8:07 ` Pierre Muller
2012-04-13 13:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
3 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Pierre Muller @ 2012-04-13 8:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Joel Brobecker', gdb; +Cc: gdb-patches
We I committed a patch about a pascal regression
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-03/msg00599.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2012-03/msg00205.html
I asked if I should merge it to fixes...
So I suppose that now is the time...
Is this OK?
ChangeLog entry:
2012-04-13 Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
* p-typeprint.c (pascal_type_print_method_args):
Fix display of parameter of methods.
Index: p-typeprint.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/p-typeprint.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42.2.1
diff -c -r1.42.2.1 p-typeprint.c
*** p-typeprint.c 6 Jan 2012 04:43:21 -0000 1.42.2.1
--- p-typeprint.c 13 Apr 2012 08:04:10 -0000
***************
*** 183,190 ****
physname += len;
for (j = 0; j < i; ++j)
! fputc_filtered (physname[i], stream);
! fputs_filtered (physname, stream);
physname += i;
if (physname[0] != 0)
--- 183,189 ----
physname += len;
for (j = 0; j < i; ++j)
! fputc_filtered (physname[j], stream);
physname += i;
if (physname[0] != 0)
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 19:14 ` Joel Brobecker
@ 2012-04-13 13:11 ` Jan Kratochvil
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From: Jan Kratochvil @ 2012-04-13 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Brobecker; +Cc: Paul Smith, gdb
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:13:53 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Looks like it's already fixed in the trunk:
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861
>
> And following the thread, it looks it was also fixed on the 7.4
> branch.
yes:
commit 983188c2aa5ac0f10fe3ffb8b3d326f16deb47d3
Author: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Feb 21 22:07:39 2012 +0000
gdb/
PR build/13638
* configure.ac (MAKEINFO): Replace AC_CHECK_PROG by AC_ARG_VAR.
(MAKEINFOFLAGS): Replace static string by AC_ARG_VAR.
* configure: Regenerate.
git name-rev 983188c2aa5ac0f10fe3ffb8b3d326f16deb47d3
983188c2aa5ac0f10fe3ffb8b3d326f16deb47d3 gdb_7_4-branch~1
Sorry for the former regression.
Jan
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-12 15:33 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release Joel Brobecker
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2012-04-13 8:07 ` Pierre Muller
@ 2012-04-13 13:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-13 19:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-19 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
3 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Jan Kratochvil @ 2012-04-13 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Brobecker; +Cc: gdb
Hello Joel,
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:33:01 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Any other changes that should go in the 7.4 branch (please, only refer to
> very very safe fixes, or fixes to critical bugs)?
there is still unfinished but it should make it in time.
[patch+7.4] Fix gdbserver qXfer:libraries-svr4 regression in special cases
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-03/msg00120.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-04/msg00192.html
Still maybe there should be an evaluation of each commit and their backporting
like what happens with GCC stable branches. I admit I do not do it even in
downstream/Fedora releases.
Thanks,
Jan
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-13 13:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
@ 2012-04-13 19:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-19 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
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From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-13 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Kratochvil; +Cc: gdb
> there is still unfinished but it should make it in time.
> [patch+7.4] Fix gdbserver qXfer:libraries-svr4 regression in special cases
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-03/msg00120.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-04/msg00192.html
No objection. If you guys think it is a safe patch, it is good enough
for me, since it fixes a regression.
> Still maybe there should be an evaluation of each commit and their
> backporting like what happens with GCC stable branches. I admit I do
> not do it even in downstream/Fedora releases.
That would require a lot of time to complete this effort, IMO.
Anyone wanting to do it is welcome to do so, of course; but I prefer
the distributed approach where we try to remember about the branch
when posting/reviewing patches, and decide there and then whether
to backport it or not. And then ask about the few ones that we might
have missed using the 2-weeks-to-release heads up email.
--
Joel
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-13 13:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-13 19:10 ` Joel Brobecker
@ 2012-04-19 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-20 8:44 ` Jan Kratochvil
1 sibling, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Joel Brobecker @ 2012-04-19 15:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Kratochvil; +Cc: gdb
Hi Jan,
> there is still unfinished but it should make it in time.
> [patch+7.4] Fix gdbserver qXfer:libraries-svr4 regression in special cases
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-03/msg00120.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-04/msg00192.html
How are we doing on these? Should we delay the 7.4.1 release a bit?
--
Joel
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* Re: 2 weeks away from potential GDB 7.4.1 release...
2012-04-19 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
@ 2012-04-20 8:44 ` Jan Kratochvil
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From: Jan Kratochvil @ 2012-04-20 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Brobecker; +Cc: gdb
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:28:19 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > there is still unfinished but it should make it in time.
> > [patch+7.4] Fix gdbserver qXfer:libraries-svr4 regression in special cases
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-03/msg00120.html
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-04/msg00192.html
>
> How are we doing on these? Should we delay the 7.4.1 release a bit?
I am busy now with non-trunk work, I still may fix the patch above in time but
I do not consider it a blocker for 7.4.1.
Thanks,
Jan
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