Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:48:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com>, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PathDB (non GPL/GNU debugger) ported to FreeBSD ! Message-ID: <616348.90480.qm@web113501.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20110519001953.GA44935@DataIX.net>
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=0A--- On Wed, 5/18/11, Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote:=0A=0A> = =0A> Sorry - no offense and just my point of view. PathDB may be=0A> nice b= ut there is nothing that is utterly apparent to be=0A> already ported to Fr= eeBSD as your subject implies. So I=0A> went through all the links and most= everything I see keeps=0A> pointing at linux this and linux that then chec= ked out the=0A> source which has a bunch of gmake(1) files scattered=0A> th= roughout and what looks to be deepdencies on GNU GCC libs=0A> and such.=0A= =0AWell .. the posting was not really mine (it was copy-pasted=0Afrom NetBS= D's tech-toolchain) but there are two things=0Ato note:=0A=0A- It is WIP, a= nd we certainly have to thank Pathscale for=0Ataking the time to port their= stuff to FreeBSD.=0A- That it uses gmake is not a showstopper. My=0Aunders= tanding is that when the port is finished it will=0Alive in the ports tree = but if we *really* like it a lot=0Acleaning up the build is not difficult.= =0A=0A> Maybe I hit the Linux repo instead of the FreeBSD one ? did=0A> I= =0A> misunderstand and '!' is supposed to be '?' in the subject=0A> ?.=0A>= =0ARight now we need options. A specific problem report=0Abuilding it along= with your platform information (or=0Aeven better a fix) would be a lot mor= e constructive.=0A=0A =0A> Anyway... seeing as clang/llvm is the compiler o= f choice=0A> for those on=0A> 9-CURRENT its probably worth noting that link= [1] would=0A> probably be more=0A> worthwhile supporting rather than somet= hing that hasnt been=0A> ported=0A> already. Also to note it seems clearly = better documented.=0A> =0A> 1). http://lldb.llvm.org/status.html=0A>=0A=0AA= nd I wish to see more people working on LLDB, but when I see=0Asomeone work= ing on an alternative and asking for feedback=0Ait certainly doesn't hurt t= o take a look.=0A=0AFurthermore if we could also have a Solaris MDB port wi= th=0Afull Dtrace support that would be really great, and if=0Asomeone finds= the code for dbx and decides to work on it=0AI'll be glad about that too.= =0A=0APedro.
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