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Re: [PATCH] Import the "dirfd" gnulib module


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Gregory> This imports the gnulib dirfd module so that LSB 3.0 can be targeted
> Gregory> when building gdb with the LSB SDK. It doesn't make any other changes
> Gregory> to gdb.
>
> I'm sorry nobody reviewed your patch earlier.
>
> I think importing the dirfd module is probably fine, but I confess I
> don't really understand the rationale.  I'm going to guess that dirfd
> isn't in LSB 3.0 but gnulib works around this ... ?

Yes, that's correct.  I posted a more thorough explanation earlier at
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-02/msg00034.html

Best regards,
Gregory


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