Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb and source forking Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909031828060.6708-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031002190.2081-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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I have not looked closely, but it appears that the changes to bfd to support the solib.c changes have been quite extensive. The diff of the .c files in bfd/ is 7000 lines long. I know that interacting with the FSF can be unenjoyable but gdb compiles and runs fine on all other OSs I have used. So if the solaris and linux crowds can keep the modifications consistent why can't we? Thanks for any insight. -Kip On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > > > I have been trying to apply some modifications to gdb but have noticed > > that FreeBSD has basically gone off on its own path with respect to gdb. > > Is there any intention pf getting these changes merged back in to the > > original distribution? It looks like it would be a lot of work. > > I don't think we have gone very far from the gdb-4.18 distribution. We > have made some changes to solib.c to account for some peculiarities in our > ld.so and there may be some other minor changes elsewhere. It would be > some work to break out all our changes so that they can be invidually > submitted to FSF. Assigning all the changes to FSF is about 10x the effort > and I don't have much enthusiasm for it. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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