From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 9 05:52:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA15461 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 05:52:22 -0800 Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA15451 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 05:52:19 -0800 From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.pcs.dec.com by mail1.digital.com; (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA25146; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 05:47:06 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.3/24Oct95-0939AM) id AA22411; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 14:47:11 +0100 Message-Id: <9511091347.AA22411@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from Chuck Robey of Tue, 07 Nov 95 22:23:52 EST. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: gdb Date: Thu, 09 Nov 95 14:47:11 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was just noticing the announcement about the latest version of gdb > being avilable, and it made me wonder howcome, when gdb is customized for > so many differenct environments, how come they don't include stuff so > that it would work out of the box on FreeBSD? probably because I never sent in any patches. One thing I noticed was that there's now a freebsd target in config.guess, but it doesn't work because there isn't any freebsd target in config.sub. This is trivial to fix. A bigger problem is that gdb/solib.c doesn't compile for -current. I haven't had time to do more than note this fact. What happens with 2.1 or earlier versions I can't say. I only run -current. The code in bfd seems to be correctly done, at least it compiles with FBSD specific stuff. > Couldn't someone who knows the reasons why, communicate them to Cygnus, > and get us on their list of supported systems? I'll put this on my TODO list. I'm planning to port the newest gdb RSN. Gary J