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Re: Difficulty for community involvment in gdb
- To: Erland Lewin <erl at voxi dot com>
- Subject: Re: Difficulty for community involvment in gdb
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:10:29 -0400
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B684397.40704@voxi.com>
Just FYI,
When I went to close your two bug reports the first thing I did was try
to find the SID bug-tracking system so that I could point you at it.
Unfortunatly that doesn't exist. Looking at the e-mail exchange it
would appear you were unfortunatly given the impression that this was a
GDB problem which it isn't, sigh.
> It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of
> tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein,
> run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.:
I'll try to clarify the comment in that file.
One thing that would help though. What lead you to check out both SID
and GDB in a single source tree? I'm guessing that this is documented
somewhere and hence, would like to locate that documentation so that
those responsible can be informed of the problems you encountered.
> So to a newcomer to this stuff, it would seem that bdf, sid etc are
> "part of gdb". It's quite difficult to get started with the cvs.
> Additionally, the gnats interface is IMHO not as good as bugzilla.
> The only thing I can do, not being a developer, seems to be to
> create bug reports; I can't add comments to them.
> I think little problems like the ones I'm having inhibit the
> advantage that gdb could get from greater community involvment. What
> I'm really trying to do is to get gdb to work better with threads
> under Linux. This has been a problem for several years (I
> contributed a patch for this about two years ago). I think the time
> it takes for these things to get fixed will be longer if it is more
> difficult for people to get involved.
Regarding Linux threads, you may want to just download/build a current
GDB. More bugs then are worth mentioning have been fixed.
With PRMS vs Bugzilla, it is a decision we live with. I think the time
to review it is when GDB+BINUITLS get merged with GCC. If you would
like a gnats account that can be arranged.
Andrew
Andrew