Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:15:57 +0200 From: "Gabor PALI" <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/124139: [patch] Fix References to gdb(1) in FAQ Message-ID: <4840283f.1c365e0a.6c72.ffffe0d2@mx.google.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200805301620.m4UGK4m1069911@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 124139
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Fix References to gdb(1) in FAQ
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri May 30 16:20:04 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gabor PALI
>Release: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy@disznohal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_ i386
>Description:
References to gdb(1) are not marked up in the FreeBSD FAQ. They
should be refer to the corresponding manual page as in the case
of other basic commands. Here is a patch to fix this.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- books.faq.patch.21.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.827
diff -u -r1.827 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 27 May 2008 23:51:07 -0000 1.827
+++ book.sgml 29 May 2008 03:20:55 -0000
@@ -3040,7 +3040,7 @@
<para>What you should do:</para>
- <para>In the first case you can use a debugger e.g. gdb to find
+ <para>In the first case you can use a debugger e.g. &man.gdb.1; to find
the point in the program which is attempting to access a bogus
address and then fix it.</para>
@@ -8902,7 +8902,7 @@
make install</command>. When &man.ppp.8; hangs, find the
&man.ppp.8; process id with <command>ps ajxww | fgrep
ppp</command> and run <command>gdb ppp
- <replaceable>PID</replaceable></command>. From the gdb
+ <replaceable>PID</replaceable></command>. From the <command>gdb</command>
prompt, you can then use <command>bt</command> to get a
stack trace.</para>
@@ -9331,7 +9331,7 @@
<para>All of this information should be given alongside your
question, making it possible to diagnose the problem.</para>
- <para>If you are familiar with gdb, you may wish to find out some
+ <para>If you are familiar with &man.gdb.1;, you may wish to find out some
other bits and pieces such as what actually caused the dump and
the addresses & values of the relevant variables.</para>
</answer>
--- books.faq.patch.21.diff ends here ---
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