Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:55:55 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running 8 building 10 part2: ctfmerge hangs Message-ID: <5473631B.80801@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAA3ZYrD8FSMjiNz_AqwUVsxXC685TaUVXCd%2BuDb7yFcwP4Z3qw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAA3ZYrD8FSMjiNz_AqwUVsxXC685TaUVXCd%2BuDb7yFcwP4Z3qw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/20/14, 3:22 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: > After thinking about this a bit, it looks like ctfmerge is broken. > 8.2 ctfmerge running under 8.2 kernel. Use a bogus argument and > it complains. (So it *is* running before it goes into a coma.) > But with normal arguments it quickly falls asleep. Thus it is broken. yes there was a period in history when ctfmerge was broken. there was afix but you cou;dn;t compile it because ctfmerge had WITH_CTF=1 in its own build and failed :-) I forget the fix unfortunately. but it hot me some time back. there IS a fix but I can't remember it > > But... if I run it under gdb, it says program exited normally: > > (gdb) run -v -L VERSION -o kernel.debug.verbose cam.o > Starting program: /new/freebsd/tmp/ctfmerge -v -L VERSION -o > kernel.debug.verbose cam.o > (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... > (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... > (no debugging symbols found)...[New LWP 100342] > (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... > [New Thread 800e041c0 (LWP 100342)] > [New Thread 800e0ae40 (LWP 100405)] > [Thread 800e0ae40 (LWP 100405) exited] > GFun: 7 SFun: 1 GVar: 4 SVar: 9 T 73 SOU: 76 > > Program exited normally. > (gdb) > > And the kernel file shrank from 117MB to 20MB, so it did something. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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