From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:25:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D3B16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:25:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8477843D2F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:25:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5GHSIeK016222; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:28:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <40D08261.40700@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:24:49 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Kurakin References: <20040616052331.GA35954@dragon.nuxi.com> <40D073DE.5090809@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <40D073DE.5090809@cronyx.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** GDB detached from the 5-CURRENT build X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:25:53 -0000 Roman Kurakin wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >> I have disconnected (i.e., disabled) `gdb` from 'make world' due to the >> impending binutils 2.15 import. GDB 5.12 cannot consume the 2.15 bfd and >> libiberty. >> >> For now GDB users will have to use the devel/gdb6 port. There will be an >> import of GDB 6.x into the /usr/src tree before 5.3-RELEASE. >> >> > How long it may take? > > rik > > Marcel Moolenaar is working on GDB6 right now. It sounds like he has a snapshot that is ready to go in soon, but it doesn't yet support kernel debugging. We will definitely have this resolved before 5.3. Until then I would highly recommend using the GDB53 or GDB6 ports. While breaking GDB is not ideal, it was discussed heavily with Marcel and David and is really the best course of action considering how much work is required to make all of it work. We _need_ GDB6 in order to get good sparc64 and amd64 support, and we need BU215 in order to get TLS in the future. It makes the most sense to go into 5-STABLE with a toolchain that we can live with for the next 12-18 months. Scott