From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu May 3 06:34:19 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F018FC5FA3 for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 06:34:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FC647FE18; Thu, 3 May 2018 06:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (124-148-108-197.dyn.iinet.net.au [124.148.108.197]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w436Y8ID015387 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 2 May 2018 23:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R To: John Baldwin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Eischen References: <20180303170941.GC9421@beast.freibergnet.de> <6178316.S5WNzPhACR@ralph.baldwin.cx> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <0eeeb34d-1c54-482c-8fd4-46fc8891cc0f@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 14:34:02 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6178316.S5WNzPhACR@ralph.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 06:34:19 -0000 On 7/3/18 3:19 am, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, March 05, 2018 08:19:24 AM Daniel Eischen wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest�l wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: >>> >>>> can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable? >>> I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old >>> pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate >>> with gdb. >>> >>> I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if >>> that directive is being honoured these days. >>> >>> It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures. >>> Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty. >> I used to like ddd also. You might try devel/gps. It's more >> than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging. >> Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly >> to ddd. > I patched ddd to use pts (was a short patch) but it still hangs for me > with both old and new gdb. I think it is unfortunately abandonware. :( > what a pitty. it was really nice to use (if you had a big screen)