Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:27:58 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Debugger issues Message-ID: <C08BD834-1158-4279-AC26-406DB6B7BC7A@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <20170726223445.GB1077@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> References: <F6042A7B-989D-4B99-8E94-B2DDC191C844@mail.sermon-archive.info> <FF3FF54F-ADD8-456C-9BEF-A76F32FDA5C1@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20170726223445.GB1077@lime.woodcruft.co.uk>
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> On 26 July 2017, at 15:34, Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:10:16AM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: >> >> Followup: lldb seems to be working now. I suspect something didn't >> compile properly and I missed an error message. gdb still fails with >> those messages. I guess I'll have to switch to lldb now. >> >> >> -- Doug > > > Hi Doug, > > > Check out the release notes for 11.1 > > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/relnotes.html#userland-programs > > At the end: > > "The gdb(1) and kgdb(1) utilities have been marked as deprecated, and > planned for removal from the base system in the future. A newer version is > available in the devel/gdb port. [r320874]" I saw that, but depreciated implies to me that it still works, but no one is going to update it in the future. Why was it retained in base if it doesn't work? Seems like it should have already been removed. -- Doughelp
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