From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29268 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2004 16:25:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29252 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2004 16:25:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2004 16:25:22 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i32GPLjl014174; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:25:21 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i32GPLj10829; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:25:21 -0500 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8942B9F; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:24:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <406D85BF.3020500@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:25:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs Cc: Jason Molenda , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Retire the MPW support from toplevel and binutils References: <406239C8.6020106@apple.com> <4062FB6D.5060108@gnu.org> <40635448.1000902@gnu.org> <4063585E.9090101@apple.com> <40635C52.5020102@gnu.org> <40635F0C.1050200@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <40635F0C.1050200@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 > >>> Stan, what's the urgency? Why not wait until GDB 6.1 and BINUTILS 1.? are released as that is obviously going to make everyones life easier. What's that, a few extra weeks? >> >> >> >> I have a bit of time available now, no guarantees about the future. >> Seeing as how the support has long been gone from GDB proper, I'm >> totally mystified as to why these files even matter to anybody one way >> or the other, let alone how keeping them makes "everyones life >> easier"?. Am I missing a scripting/packaging dependency or >> something? > > > Who knows whats going on with scripting/packaging. Stan, I see you've committed these changes. GDB 6.1 branch, and I suspect the BINUTILS branches will no longer snapshot: > 4 > ? > Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Fix the version in any isolated files ... > Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Blatting files ... > Fri Apr 2 02:24:10 UTC 2004: Making snapshot using src-release ... > make: *** No rule to make target `mpw-README', needed by `gdb+dejagnu.tar'. Stop. That is why I asked you to do this: > I'm more than happy to do this for you in a few weeks once GDB and BINUTILS are out of the way. Andrew