[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/4] gdb: enable simulator support for host build

[Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>]

Hi,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 28 May 2016 17:48:11 +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> 
> > I totally forgot about it. See here:
> > https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-12/msg00029.html
> > 
> > For newer GDB (7.10.1/7.11) we need to use out-of-tree builds. I
> > only tested with 7.9, I think it was the default by the time I
> > tested it or I changed it.
> > 
> > How would we change package/gdb to use out-of-tree building?
> 
> The fact that it doesn't work with in-tree build is really a bug, so
> I'm not sure we should switch to out of tree build just for this
> reason. We should probably instead backport the patches needed to fix
> the in-tree build, or use the workaround proposed by Mike, at least for
> the affected gdb versions. I've tested with gdb 7.10 only, not sure if
> 7.11 is affected or not.

7.11 is affected.
How do you understand his workaround? 
I never used it, I changed OpenADK to use out-of-tree builds for
GDB.

I think there are a lot of developers out there would saying
out-of-tree builds are good and in-tree might fail and we don't
care. (.. OpenBSD'ler.. )

best regards
 Waldemar