Re: heads up: GDB 7.7 official release Wed Jan 29th (tomorrow)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

> I'm certainly aware that this comes in at a very late time, but
> given the timing of when powerpc64le-linux support shows up in
> the other parts of the core toolchain (binutils 2.24, gcc 4.9,
> glibc 2.19) it would be really nice if GDB 7.7 also had support,
> to complete the picture ...

Outch.

> On the other hand, it would certainly be preferable to allow for
> at least a couple of days before checking the series in to give
> people a chance to comment, so it seems unlikely this could be
> in place in the branch by tomorrow.

I don't know of any reason that would force us to release tomorrow.
The last 2-3 weeks of pre-release testing having been fairly quiet,
we had no real reason to wait either.

> So I guess I'm wondering if you see workable options to still
> get powerpc64le-linux support into a release in the near future ...
> Maybe we could do a 7.7.1 ?

I'm a bit uncomfortable including support for a new target like that
without more testing, particularly since the changes affects files
already in use by other ports. I had a quick look, and perhaps the
changes can be reviewed well enough to convince ourselves that they
are indeed safe enough for the branch.

Here is what I propose:

  1. We delay the release to Monday (Feb 3rd).

  2. During that time frame, let's try to get the changes reviewed
     by at least one more GM - it might be me.

It would be good to get a sense of when people think gcc-4.9 is going
to come out. Last I looked, the branch hadn't been created yet.
Perhaps, one option is to schedule 7.8 to coincide with gcc-4.9
(or slightly before, if we'd like to).

Cheers,
-- 
Joel