Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:45:19 -0700 (MST) From: Evan Parry <nave@azstarnet.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing gdb (3.0) to debug AOUT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011142500.5907-100000@lhasa.azstarnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990101171029.A63618@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Friday, 1 January 1999 at 0:33:32 -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > > As a "work around", I recompiled a copy from my 2.2.6 machine with -static > > > defined, and copied it over. It seems to work ok.... > > > > That's about the way to do it. 3.0 gdb doesn't currently support > > a.out, but I believe somebody is working on it. > > > > Have I missed a question in this message? > > any of the normal methods should work: > > $ gdb -aout ... other stuff ... > $ OBJFORMAT=aout gdb ... other stuff ... > > seems to work. There are two gdbs on -current as standard > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 761856 Oct 20 21:15 /usr/libexec/aout/gdb > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 736664 Dec 30 23:31 /usr/libexec/elf/gdb > > and the "wrapper" which decides on the correct object format: > 108545 -r-xr-xr-x 14 root wheel 47760 Dec 30 23:35 /usr/bin/gdb > 108545 -r-xr-xr-x 14 root wheel 47760 Dec 30 23:35 /usr/bin/objformat > > Not sure if this is the same in -release though. > > Or have I misunderstood something? > Is this a option for make world? I am running a very recent -CURRENT and I do not have a /usr/libexec/aout/gdb and, of course, I get errors when trying to use gdb on an aout binary. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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