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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:13:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Request change name of function lookup_enum in libbabeltrace to make GDB use this lib
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
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On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:51 PM, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
> I suggest that it's best if both GDB and Libbabeltrace change the name
> of lookup_enum.  That way you'll be able to compile any version of GDB
> with any version of libbabeltrace (fixed or unfixed) and all four
> combinations will work except "unfixed GDB" and "unfixed
> libbabeltrace").
>
> If you just change it in the library, gdb stops building on machines that
> have the old library.
>
> If you just change it in GDB, older gdb's won't be compatible with
> newer libraries.  Hmm, but older gdb's don't link with that library
> anyway.  So you might as well just fix it in GDB; that works for all
> cases.
>
>         John

Thanks, John.

Hi Tom, What do you think about the suggest from John?

Thanks,
Hui