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Re: gdbserver version


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:54:15PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 	gdbserver Makefile consists of following line:
> 
> # Perhaps should come from parent Makefile
> VERSION = gdbserver-4.12.3
> 
> 	Why is it different from version number of gdb i.e. 6.4, 6.3 etc?
> 	And I hope gdbserver having same version number will work gdb's with
> different version i.e. gdbserver is from which build (gdb 6.4 build or
> gdb 6.3 build) won't matter if gdbserver version no. are same ?

That version is, as you noticed on gdb-patches, not currently used. 
Thus it hasn't been updated in a long long time.

I don't think gdbserver needs its own version number; it should just
share GDB's.  I'll respond to the patch separately.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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