[csw-maintainers] [ITP] gdb 7.2

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 08.01.2011 um 10:43 schrieb Peter FELECAN:

> Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
> 
>> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri Jan 07 03:23:59 -0500 2011:
>> 
>>> I think that we can use libintl without much worry; the kludgy way
>>> that they use to alleviate a SUN libc issue will fade away when the
>>> support for Solaris 9 is terminated. Anyway, caution is always a
>>> good stance.
>> 
>> I have a mostly up-to-date build description for ggettext ready to go,
>> but I stalled it while waiting for the arbitration results.  It needs
>> a bit of testing yet too.
>> 
>> I think this package would benefit from being built separately on sol9
>> and sol10 so that this issue only affects sol9.  I'll try to get back
>> to this, but if someone else wants to pick it up, most of the work is
>> done already.
> 
> I don't think that is necessary to have separate packages. In the code
> that I cited in my detailed mail, you can add a run-time detection of
> the release of Solaris on which it actually runs and act accordingly. I
> can provide an easy patch , preferably for 0.18.1. If we validate this,
> we can submit the patch upstream.

That would be excellent!!

Best regards

  -- Dago