Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:25:55 -0800 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r368667 - in head: . gnu/usr.bin gnu/usr.bin/binutils gnu/usr.bin/gdb tools/build/mk Message-ID: <7b56af12-94db-5ed0-1fc7-866d33a8b1e7@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202012151744.0BFHiJfd093834@repo.freebsd.org> References: <202012151744.0BFHiJfd093834@repo.freebsd.org>
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On 12/15/20 9:44 AM, Ed Maste wrote: > Author: emaste > Date: Tue Dec 15 17:44:19 2020 > New Revision: 368667 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368667 > > Log: > Retire obsolete GDB 6.1.1 > > GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not > support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes > limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of > DWARF2 debugging information. > > It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which > extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash. > Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed. > > Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path > for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the > excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13. > > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610 Are you going to remove the -gdwarf-2 bits from kern.mk now? (Does ctfconvert support newer DWARF?) -- John Baldwin
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