Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:38:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: cracauer@cons.org, eischen@vigrid.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@ma.ikos.com, tich@par28.ma.ikos.com Subject: Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <199908251538.LAA04490@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> 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. I thought the gdb in our base system could debug aout binaries. Or am I sadly mistaken. > 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. I haven't tested the port on aout. The main reason I did the port was to make an Ada-aware version of gdb. The GNAT maintainers release patches to a specific version of gdb (in this case gdb-4.17), so basing a port of gdb on what's in our base system was a bad idea. The gdb port I mentioned wasn't the Ada-aware gdb port, it was just a step to get there. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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