From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 25 8:25:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (grisu.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A1C15322; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.194]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA10244; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:22:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.7.3) id RAA67578; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:21:49 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:21:49 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Daniel Eischen Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@ma.ikos.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@par28.ma.ikos.com Subject: Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <19990825172149.A66149@cons.org> References: <199908230046.UAA23102@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908230046.UAA23102@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from Daniel Eischen on Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 08:46:42PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <199908230046.UAA23102@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Richard Cownie wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Are you saying 4.17 is better than 4.18 for debugging C++? Or are you > > > saying you didn't know FreeBSD comes with gdb: > > > > gdb-4.18 is badly broken on all platforms (at least for C++). You can't > > call methods from the gdb command line, and also it frequently freezes > > to the point where you have to kill the window. gdb-4.17 is much better > > for C++. > > There's a port for gdb-4.17 sitting on my ftp site at: > > ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/FreeBSD/gdb-4.17-port.tar.gz > > The port includes changes made to the gdb in our base system > (then, Mar 1999, it was gdb-4.15 I believe). I haven't made > any further updates to it since. You're welcome to play around > with it. Did anyone of you took care that you can build an aout gdb on an ELF FreeBSD system? I don't mean a gdb that is aout, but one that can debug aout binaries. That would be most useful to have as a port. Just step to `/usr/ports/devel/aout-gdb && make install` and it uses /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb or fetches some other source by itself if it can't use native sources. The modula-3 port does something in that line, uses /usr/src if it can. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message