Re: GNATS: gdb-prs@ -> gdb@?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:51:30PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone know something about GNATS?
> >
> > I think I know why the ``send email to interested parties'' URL on the 
> > GDB's GNATS web page contains:
> >
> > nobody@
> > The e-mail address of things like ``Responsible: unassigned'' get mapped 
> > onto nobody@ because they can't be mapped onto nothing (That gets 
> > remapped to unassigned@.  True?).  Same for a few others.  I think we 
> > can live with this one.
> >
> > gdb-prs@
> > The contact address for the ``net'' and ``unknown'' customers is gdb-prs@!
> >
> > What do people think of changing this?  For instance, just setting it to 
> > gdb@ or nobody@ (like most other things).
>
> nobody@ would be preferable to gdb@, I think...
>
>
> > I also don't remember the rationale behind gdb-gnats@ (where to send a 
> > bug report) vs gdb-prs@ (where the bug reports appear).  I suspect that 
> > it is to stop people accidently re-sending to gdb-gnats?
>
> Isn't gdb-gnats input into the gnats DB, and gdb-prs output from it?
I think its configured.

The attached shows up a second problem.  I can't reply to your reply as 
the headers put it down as being from gdb-prs.  Arrrg.

Andrew

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• From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
• To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
• Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
• Date: 26 Sep 2002 01:58:01 -0000
• Subject: Re: gdb/722: Encounter "__builtin_va_alist undeclared" during building GDB
• Delivery-date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:58:04 -0400
• Envelope-to: cagney@gnu.org
• Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>

The following reply was made to PR gdb/722; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: shoang@northropgrumman.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/722: Encounter "__builtin_va_alist undeclared" during building GDB
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:52:00 -0400

 On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:45:54AM -0000, shoang@northropgrumman.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         722
 > >Category:       gdb
 > >Synopsis:       Encounter "__builtin_va_alist undeclared" during building GDB
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 25 18:48:02 PDT 2002
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Sonny Hoang
 > >Release:        5.2.1
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > SUN 4u running Sun OS Release 5.7
 > >Description:
 > I download and extract files into directory gdb5.2.1 then I go into that directory running "./configure sun4" then I enter "make".  After a while of compiling, it gave me several errors in concat.c file saying:
 > 
 > function `concat_length':
 > `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared (first use in this function)
 > function `concat_copy':
 > `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared (first use in this function)
 > 
 > and etc.
 > 
 > I don't know what to do.  I need help please.
 
 Sun4 is SunOS 4.  Try using a solaris2 configuration triplet.  Try
 sparc-solaris2 maybe?
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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