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Re: [PATCH] Don't try building gdb against guile-2.2
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:13:45 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't try building gdb against guile-2.2
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 12:47:03 -0400
>
> GDB currently doesn't build with Guile 2.2 (see PR 21104). If one has
> both Guile 2.2 and 2.0 installed, GDB will pick up Guile 2.2 first and
> fail building. Until somebody does the work of adapting the GDB code to
> Guile 2.2, we should not try using it. This patch therefore removes it
> from configure.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> * configure.ac (try_guile_versions): Remove guile-2.2.
> * configure: Regenerate.
Should we perhaps have a configure-time option, by default off, to use
Guile 2.2? Otherwise, how would that "somebody" work on fixing this
problem, if they cannot even try building with Guile 2.2?
Thanks.