RE: [RFA 5/5] New patches to support --enable-targets=all for mingw64

["Pierre Muller" <pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De?: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Joel Brobecker
> Envoyé?: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:11 PM
> À?: Pierre Muller
> Cc?: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Objet?: Re: [RFA 5/5] New patches to support --enable-targets=all for
> mingw64
> 
> > 5) solib-som.c is a tdep file (it is listed in ALL_TARGET_OBS)
> > but it tries to get the hpux system version trough
> > a direct system call, which probably leads to wrong results
> > on other systems too.
> 
> Ugh!
> 
> I have a more radical suggestion: AFAIK, we have not supported pa-hpux
> version 10.x or older for quite a while.  According to HP, the first
> 11.x release was in 1997, and the l0.x release was also in 1997.

  I am not against as I have no interest in HPUX in general...
 
> Given that this version number is used to determine whether the OS
> version is 11 or more, we can assume that this is always true, and
> thus get rid of the function (and the associated include) entirely.

  But shouldn't we then clearly state that we drop hpux 10.X versions 
support?
 
  Should we remove the function get_hpux_major_release 
completely, or turn it into a function returning a variable,
that could be set by some command like
"set hpux-major-release-version XX"
that would allow people using it on an old HPUX 10.X
to still get old behavior?

  Does anyone know of a good mailing list for HPUX
developers to which we could forward that question?


Pierre Muller
Pascal language support maintainer for GDB