Re: [toplevel patch] delete references to tix

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:18, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> 
>> I don't think there's a public release that doens't include tix yet.
>> Am I mistaken?  If so, I stand corrected, and the patch may very well
>> go in now.
> 
> 
> The last official release, gdb 5.3 had an Insight that still used tix.  
> I don't recommend this version to Insight users, but I see your point
> about builds.  I guess someone might still need the tix toplevel stuff;
> I just left it in out of laziness and because it didn't affect anything.

Alex wrote:

 > Maybe it's a bit too early?  Consider that someone might create a
> unified tree out of the latest stable releases of the tools, as
> described in the CrossGCC FAQ IIRC, and then, if it turns out that the
> insight release still uses tix, but the toplevel no longer does, we
> lose.

I think `they loose'.  The senario you describe is, at this stage, 
strictly hypothetical.  It only occures if, at some future stage, a 
binutils or gcc containing this change is made before GDB.

Besides, such edge conditions should be covered by the CrossGCC FAQ (has 
that really not been changed in >3 years?).

enjoy,
Andrew