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Re: [PATCH] Remove gdb/nlm subdirectory
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Well, in all the time I've been working on GDB, I've never seen a user
> question about Netware, a GNATS PR about Netware, or a developer commit
> tested on Netware. To build it you need a Netware-provided SDK; I
> don't know if those are still obtainable.
I'm in favor of removing it, but I just want to note that the last
sentence is not correct. You can build the gdb/nlm code using an
i386-elf-gcc and nlmconv. No non-GNU tools are required.
However, it is true that the current sources won't build without
modification. The configure script looks for config/CPU/gdbserve.mt,
and no such files exist. The only two targets which ever worked were
i386 and PPC, and the required gdbserve.mt files were removed with
this change:
2003-02-05 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Remove orphaned hosts, targets and files.
...
So since then it has been difficult to build the NLM debug server. I
think the lack of complaints about this is a compelling argument that
the code is unused.
Ian