From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 22:42:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258C9106566C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED83C8FC14 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5LMgF9d093066; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:42:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4C1FEAC7.4090108@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:42:15 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100523 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <4C1FE5A9.6030905@rawbw.com> <1F624A05-30CA-4EE1-8AE0-6518051D01E3@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1F624A05-30CA-4EE1-8AE0-6518051D01E3@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why gdb isn't updated from 2004? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:42:16 -0000 On 06/21/2010 15:33, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The latest versions of gdb are under GPLv3-- I believe starting from around Aug 2007 (aka gdb-6.7.1 or later). > I see. Then my question would morph into this one: Why gdb port isn't created for the latest gdb-7.1 ? I need gdb-7.1, GPL or not. After compiling from source I see an issue: it can't set breakpoints in the statically linked shared libraries (having debug info). Yuri