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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT
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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


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