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Re: target-delegates.c needs some TLC [was Re: [OB PATCH] target.h (to_traceframe_info): Fix TARGET_DEFAULT_RETURN]
- From: Hui Zhu <teawater at gmail dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Hui Zhu <hui_zhu at mentor dot com>, gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:53:55 +0800
- Subject: Re: target-delegates.c needs some TLC [was Re: [OB PATCH] target.h (to_traceframe_info): Fix TARGET_DEFAULT_RETURN]
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Now, GDB has supported python. And most distributions depth depend on
the python.
What about change this script to python.
Thanks,
Hui
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 01:20 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
>> While I realize we don't want to require perl for building gdb (and I
>> for one would never advocate it), I wonder if we can do at least a bit
>> better.
>
> perl is required by git, and GDB source is version controlled by git.
> I assume that most of the host machine used for gdb development have
> git and perl installed. People may get source from release, and
> generate patch on top of it (without git/perl installed). It isn't
> common, is it?
>
> Anyway, we can check whether perl is installed. If perl is installed,
> run make-target-delegates during make and error out if new-generated
> target-delegates.c is different from the one in gdb source. Is it good?
> If yes, I'll submit a patch for this.
>
> Using --enable-maintainer-mode or adding new --enable-foo option isn't
> appealing to me.
>
> --
> Yao (éå)