From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Mar 6 19:35:36 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 24209F26D60 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 19:35:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from mail.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0DF886A5F; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 19:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (ralph.baldwin.cx [66.234.199.215]) by mail.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0777210A8BA; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:35:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Eischen Subject: Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:19:39 -0800 Message-ID: <6178316.S5WNzPhACR@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (FreeBSD/11.1-STABLE; KDE/4.14.30; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20180303170941.GC9421@beast.freibergnet.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mail.baldwin.cx); Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:35:35 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mail.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:35:36 -0000 On Monday, March 05, 2018 08:19:24 AM Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest=EF=BF=BDl wrote: >=20 > > 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 communicat= e > > 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. >=20 > 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. :(= --=20 John Baldwin