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Re: host_makefile_frag and cross debugging
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:31:48PM +0100, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:09:17 +0100, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> wrote:
> >Host fragments are for native debugger support routines now - only.
>
> So what's the official way of making host configurations these days then?
Autoconf mostly. The xm files are gone; do the test elsewhere. Check
what CVS does for path separators. Eli fixed these not long ago.
> >>What am I missing?
> >
> >You're missing the fact that xm-mingw32.h comes from your local
> >patches, not from the FSF tree. CVS gdb has absolutely no xm files
> >left - even after Mark has added most of a MinGW host support.
>
> That may be true - I haven't checked - but GDB 6.3 still had two:
>
> $ find . -name 'xm-*.h'
> ./gdb/config/i386/xm-cygwin.h
> ./gdb/config/i386/xm-go32.h
>
> and these do exactly the sort of things I need done. The MinGW patches
> have merely followed the pattern.
But they already didn't work for cross debuggers, because we were
mostly through the process of removing them.
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