Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:42:36 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/lib/libthread_db Makefile Message-ID: <675E8F7C-16B2-410C-8239-E9E396A6F6BC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20080312123331.T1091@desktop> References: <200803120949.m2C9ndTW031022@repoman.freebsd.org> <34B0E2E4-4F7F-4A0B-97DD-2D69DCC612AD@mac.com> <20080312115424.U1091@desktop> <B7761C64-68C9-4BF7-9E06-B200244B7EAC@mac.com> <20080312123331.T1091@desktop>
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On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> >> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:49 AM, Jeff Roberson wrote: >>>>> jeff 2008-03-12 09:49:39 UTC >>>>> FreeBSD src repository >>>>> Modified files: >>>>> lib Makefile >>>>> lib/libthread_db Makefile >>>>> Log: >>>>> - Remove libkse and related support code in libpthread from the >>>>> build. >>>>> Don't remove the files yet. Kernel support will be removed >>>>> shortly. >>>> I think removing support to debug processes that link >>>> against libkse is premature. You want to keep the >>>> support for at least a full major release, but ideally >>>> until the last release branch that supported KSE is >>>> obsoleted. >>> Hey Marcel, >>> I thought about that but I'm not sure how it would work. Any >>> debugging would have to happen on a kernel that supported KSE. >>> That kernel will have to be 7.x or prior. >> >> I was thinking about core files. There's no need for kernel >> support in that case, but we do need suport in libthread_db >> in order to extract thread state from the core file. >> FYI, > > Oh excellent point. I'll restore that. I can move the kse.h file > from the Attic into libthread_db. I hadn't deleted the library or > the thread_db yet incase something like this came up. Thanks; and thanks for taking care of the ia64 tinderbox failure :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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