Re: patch for gdb.texinfo

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@shebs.cnchost.com> writes:

Stan> I disagree here.  We do have to worry about backward
Stan> compatibility, just as we had to support K&R compilers for a
Stan> long time, and just as we support many old OS versions.

Why?  The info files should be up-to-date in the distribution (this is
mandated by the GNU Coding Standards), so most users will never need
to run texinfo.  I don't think it is a big deal to make people who do
need to run it use whatever version we tell them to (as a practical
matter they often must do this anyway).

Stan> Certainly many GDB users would be disappointed if we trashed
Stan> Linux support for any kernel older than, say, 2.2.5!

Is that the official target kernel?  I still run 2.0.34 (!) and an
unpatched gdb doesn't work on my box.

Tom