From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 22:52:43 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 B77E9106566B for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout028.mac.com (asmtpout028.mac.com [17.148.16.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F39C8FC17 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:52:43 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp028.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L4D00M8YZJ4K950@asmtp028.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:52:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1006210142 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5,1.2.40,4.0.166 definitions=2010-06-21_01:2010-02-06, 2010-06-21, 2010-06-21 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4C1FEAC7.4090108@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:52:16 -0700 Message-id: References: <4C1FE5A9.6030905@rawbw.com> <1F624A05-30CA-4EE1-8AE0-6518051D01E3@mac.com> <4C1FEAC7.4090108@rawbw.com> To: Yuri X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) 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 22:52:43 -0000 On Jun 21, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Yuri wrote: > I see. Then my question would morph into this one: > Why gdb port isn't created for the latest gdb-7.1 ? Evidently, no one has submitted it. Perhaps the issue you've noted: > 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). ...is part of the reason. If you do fix the issue, and feel motivated to submit these fixes with a gdb-7.1 port, well, I'm sure that would be appreciated. Regards, -- -Chuck