[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gdb: add support for gdb 8.0

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jun 12 07:36:40 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 23:17:36 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Applied to master, thanks. Do you intend to send a patch that updates
> > the default gdb version to 7.12, and drop support for 7.10 ?  
> 
>  Since we've been discussing version dropping, perhaps it's time to consider gdb
> as well.
> 
>  Is there really any reason to support multiple versions of gdb?
> 
>  If yes, is there a reason to not use the latest version as default?
> 
>  And the same questions for binutils.

All this version selection stuff is very historical. I guess one reason
for it is to allow people to upgrade Buildroot while keeping the same
toolchain components, which are often quite sensitive to changes.
That's the main reasoning.

Now, as we have discussed, while such a concern is very valid for gcc,
it's probably less true for binutils/gdb.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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