[Bug 702846] Review Request: mingw32-gdb - MinGW Windows port of the GDB debugger

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--- Comment #5 from Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> 2011-06-03 13:53:48 EDT ---
Thanks for the review, Thomas!

(In reply to comment #3)
> + The package is named according to Fedora MinGW packaging guidelines
> !   please modify it to anticipate the "MinGW_future" packaging guidelines
>     (i.e. rename it to mingw-gdb)

Fixed.


> ! while the built gdb.exe does work on native Windows, wine gdb.exe just hangs.
>   I would expect to be able to enter help etc. Since the MinGW project goal is
>   to minimize windows use, I think gdb.exe working with wine should be a goal
>   if we are to include the mingw32-gdb package in fedora

No idea why it hangs like that and I don't really intend to dig into wine/gdb
source to figure it out.

In my opinion, gdb is an invaluable debugging tool and as such, it would make
sense to keep it in Fedora, even if it doesn't run entirely correctly under
Wine (besides, Wine is unavailable on our secondary arches like arm and ppc).

If we provide a toolchain to build packages, we should also make sure there's a
way to debug them with free tools. There have been numerous people popping in
to the #fedora-mingw IRC channel and asking for gdb.exe; each time we've had to
send them off to a third party site.


Spec URL: http://kalev.fedorapeople.org/mingw-gdb.spec
SRPM URL: http://kalev.fedorapeople.org/mingw-gdb-7.2-2.fc15.src.rpm

* Fri Jun 03 2011 Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> - 7.2-2
- Renamed the source package to mingw-gdb (#702846)

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