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Re: Assume solib.h
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:30:59 -0500
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
It could by now have even been committed, if only we'd not been dragged
down this rat-hole where people start insisting that it has to be tested
on old crufty systems that likely don't even build. If you want drive
away native GNU and GNU/Linux developers from what is ment to be a GNU
project, tell them to fix vax-ultrix.
To set this straight: vax-ultrix is an old crufty system that *does*
build. But can we please leave vax-ultrix out of this discussion. As
soon as it really hampers progress, I'll happily scrap it.
While I recognize that GDB's primary target is GNU/Linux, moving into
the direction of GDB as a GNU-only debugger is a bad idea. As I've
stated before, support for other systems makes us take the right
design issues. But what's more important, by turning GDB into a
GNU-only debugger you'll probably loose some of the few active
contributors that we have left.
Mark