Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] gdb support

[Volker Grabsch]

Mark de Wever <address@hidden> schrieb:
> Volker Grabsch wrote:
> >Mark de Wever <address@hidden> schrieb:
> >>I created a package for gdb and was wondering whether there's interest
> >>in such a package.
> >
> >That sounds interesting, but what is the difference to the
> >GDB installer provided by the MinGW project?
> >http://downloads.sf.net/mingw/files/gdb-5.2.1-1.exe
> 
> Nothing except for the fact it's rather old, but the site provides newer 
> binaries as well. For me it was easier to just compile gdb, but since 
> there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this package I'll just use 
> it locally.

Please don't be discouraged just because it doesn't fit well
into mingw-cross-env. In such a case, it's usually a good idea
to publish it on your own - in your case, as a build script or
as a plain gdb.exe. Maybe it's useful for someone else.

Some time ago I adjusted the margins of a linux printer driver
to make it fit on my specific printer. It was really just the
other driver with two lines changed. I never thought that it's
really useful. But as I spent a whole afternoon (and much paper)
to figure out the exact alignment values, I published it. A few
weeks later I got several personal notes of thanks via email.
I don't know whether it will be included into the official driver
suite, but I do know I helped some people out there.

So I strongly recommend to publish everything you spent some
time and work on.


Greets,

    Volker

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