From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 26 23:17: 3 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 0F4BF37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA09882; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:15:24 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: Randell Jesup , Max Khon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GDB 4.18 and shared libraries (Mozilla) Message-ID: <20001026231524.F9391@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000919103436.B94601@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000920005447.B97385@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010180000.SAA13097@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010180000.SAA13097@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0600 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 Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Randell Jesup writes: > : Well, personally, as a _user_ of FreeBSD, I don't care who has the > : finger pointed at them, or who claims "it isn't _our_ bug". I care that no > : one can debug a program that uses shared libraries under -STABLE, and I > : care when it will be fixed. I don't consider a system I have to patch the > : loader in order to debug my code to be "STABLE". > > No one is arguing with you that there is a bug. It is a matter of > finding someone to fix it. It isn't a matter of finding _someone_ to fix it, but _where_ to fix it. Either in the offical Binutils src tree where I take Binutils from, or in the FreeBSD src/binutils, where I really don't like makeing and maintaining local mods -- we've screwed the pooch too many times doing that. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message