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Re: m32r sim was Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, "palves at redhat dot com" <palves at redhat dot com>, "jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com" <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:38:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: m32r sim was Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?
- References: <20130320160032 dot GC5447 at adacore dot com> <51553AA8 dot 8020705 at rtems dot org> <5155A93E dot 3050509 at oarcorp dot com> <201303291230 dot 37045 dot vapier at gentoo dot org> <20130329164237 dot GL4758 at adacore dot com> <515D1D47 dot 10301 at rtems dot org>
> >I have to admit that the number of iterations and the amount of
> >research/testing needed in order to try to get this right is
> >making me slightly nervous. Nothing we can do about it for
> >this release. But for future releases, Ralf & Joel, do you think
> >you could incorporate some regular testing of the HEAD on your
> >end?
>
> Well, I am not actually developing on gdb, but am packaging
> rtems-gdbs for different host OSes. Therefore, I am usually
> jumping-in when gdb releases a pre-release tarball and am testing
> building it. Apologies, if this is inconvenient to you,
It's not inconvenient to me, but it significantly delays the release
cycle to find problems of this sort so late in the game, and it also
reduces the amount of exposure the fix might have. It's such a shame
because such errors are so each to catch right away... All it needs
is a little nightly/weekly script that fetches the latest head, and
rebuilds the configurations that you care about. I am asking whether
you could help with that, since these are the targets that you do
care about.
--
Joel