From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 0:56:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B491237B423 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA97527; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:54:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Max Khon Cc: Randell Jesup , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Bauman Subject: Re: GDB 4.18 and shared libraries (Mozilla) Message-ID: <20000920005447.B97385@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000919103436.B94601@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:15:16PM +0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:15:16PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > do you plan to MFC GDB 5.0? It hasn't been completely finished updating in -CURRENT. Of course if someone wants to maintain GDB in src/contrib/gdb they are *very* welcome to do so. I never desired to become the GDB maintainer. > if yes, when we can expect it to appear in -stable? Several weeks after it is done in -CURRENT. > will you upgrade binutils as well? Huh?? Both -STABLE and -CURRENT are using the latest Binutils release. > PR/20373 definitely is not a GDB problem. And it is not a FreeBSD problem. It is a Binutils problem. > > Thus the lack of the rev 1.8-1.9 change is a GDB/Binutils problem, not a > > FreeBSD one. > > this IS a FreeBSD problem. Well *_I_* the Binutils maintain do not consider it a FreeBSD problem. So it isn't. Have you emailed the Binutils list yet?? > the fact is: FreeBSD 4.x has broken binutils Your fact -- the Binutils experts (ie, the maintainers) tell me it isn't. I am not going to create a Linux-like rouge Binutils version. FreeBSD runs the official Binutils. > (but it affects only debugging process) and broken g++ (incorrect code > generation). the second problem is quite serious. solutions exist for both > problems for quite long time but nothing has been done so far (please > understand that I am not blaming you). what can help us to solve this? > more committers who deal with binutils/gcc? money? More _PEOPLE_ (this includes you) who deal with the Binutils and GCC developers. There are hardly any FreeBSD users who contribute to the development of either of those tools. > another question is how can one get to know official information > (if such exists), for example, about planned binutils/gcc/gdb changes. The GCC, Binutils, and GDB mailing lists of course. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message