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Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:36:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:27:41 +0100
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > The gnulib problem was fixed upstream, see
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-01/msg00044.html
> >
> > Can we please import that fix into GDB, so that the next releases will
> > not have the problem? (I don't know how to import from gnulib, let
> > alone do it for just some of the modules.)
>
> No one's really answered, so I'll provide some feedback: We can add
> one or more modules, but I'm pretty sure the code for all modules need
> to be from the same version of gnulib.
What about just "cherry-picking" that single change? Or would that
cause trouble further down the line, when we do update gnulib?