Re: GDB 6.8.92 available for testing

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 10/01/2009 12:09 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:17:24 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > --enable-system-readline also is still broken (Jan, please submit
> > your gdb-readline-6.0.patch you have applied to Fedora's gdb).
>
> * I do not consider it appropriate for FSF GDB as the Fedora patch is just
>    a hack, GDB should not make references to readline internal variables.
Agreed, but isn't the actual hackish part in gdb?

> * FSF GDB does build with the default options.  Dependencies on external
>    libraries are a task of distro vendors and the distros already contain GDB
>    patches on their own.
You are forgetting about the 3rd parties, which apply distros as their 
basis.

Ralf