[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/gdb: add gdb 7.7.1

[Cody P Schafer]

On 05/12/2014 12:21 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Cody P Schafer,
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:08:05 -0700, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>
>>> I'm not sure we want to jump straight to 7.7 for all architectures.
>>> We're usually a bit conservative with regard to the version of toolchain
>>> components. So I'd suggest instead to add 7.6 and 7.7. Make 7.6 the new
>>> default for all architectures except PPC64, and make 7.6 unavailable
>>> for PPC64, and therefore select 7.7 for PPC64. Of course, all older gdb
>>> versions should be unavailable for PPC64.
>>
>> So long as s/PPC64/PPC64le/, sure.
>
> Right. I guess PPC64 (big endian) has been supported since a long time,
> is this correct?

Yep, ppc64 (big endian) has been around and supported in gcc/glibc/gdb 
for quite a while now (looks like the first gdb support landed in 2007).