From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:36:40 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gdb: add support for gdb 8.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170605204648.11780-1-romain.naour@gmail.com> <20170611181043.0de6329f@windsurf.home> Message-ID: <20170612093640.0b2da648@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com