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Re: [PATCH] Don't enable gdbtk in testsuite
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:53:57 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't enable gdbtk in testsuite
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On 12/05/2014 06:55 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> That patch removed it from the git repo, mirroring how CVS modules
>> worked. In CVS, if you checkout the "gdb" module, you don't get
>> the gdbtk dirs, but if you checkout the insight module instead, you
>> get everything gdb, plus the insight bits: src/gdb/gdbtk subdir,
>> src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.gdbtk/, and maybe other bits.
>
> Hi Pedro,
> I looked at insight and the date of the last commit in
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog is 2013-10-21. Looks insight stops updating gdb
> after gdb migrates to git so I think it should be safe to remove
> testsuite gdbtk from gdb head.
insight's official repo is kind of stuck in a limbo. CVS is dead,
so that's not where you should be looking. There's no official git
repo yet, but AIUI, people are using this non-official repo instead:
https://github.com/monnerat/insight
In any case, I don't see why we should treat insight bits in
gdb/testsuite/configure.ac any different from bits in gdb/configure.ac.
It's exactly the same issue.
>> So removing the testsuite support for gdbtk doesn't seem like
>> the right thing to do. Particularly since we still have the
>> gdbtk bits in gdb/configure.ac. IOW, I don't see how
>> src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.gdbtk/ not being around is different
>> from src/gdb/gdbtk/ not being around. We should either keep
>> all support for gdbtk, or remove all of it.
>
> It is aggressive to remove gdbtk bits from gdb/configure.ac, although
> there were some "insight end-of-life" discussions on insight mail list.
That topic was raised, but from those discussions it seemed clear
to me that there is still interest in it. E.g.,
https://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2014-q4/msg00007.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2014-q3/msg00010.html
Personally, I wouldn't be adverse to importing gdbtk into the official
gdb repo. I don't see how that could hurt -- we tend to worry
about insight anyway when we touch code that might affect it, like
most the deprecated_foo hooks.
> I am OK to revert my patch.
I think we should do that.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves