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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb Makefile nm.h 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:07:23 +1100."
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:59:59 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Agreed.  kgdb makes no sense.

  From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
  Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb Makefile nm.h
  >  Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb  Makefile nm.h
  >  Log:
  >  add LINKS line to Makefile to automatically produce a link to kgdb
  >  
  >  define START_PROGRESS in nm.h to check whether gdb was invoked as kgdb
  >  and set the kernel_debugging flag in that case.
  >  
  >  2.2 candidate ?
  
  Backwards step.
  
  	$ man kgdb
  	No manual entry for kgdb
  	$ apropos kgdb
  	kgdb: nothing appropriate
  	$ info kgdb
  	...
  	There is no menu item "kgdb" in this node.
  	$ info -f kgdb
  	info: kgdb: File name too long
  	            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stale errno bug in info?
  
  It's more important to support one interface properly.  The -k and -w flags
  are not documented in either gdb.1 or gdb.texi.
  
  Bruce