From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 3 18:40:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F07415C09 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id SAA15522; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:40:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: Doug Rabson Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb and source forking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: dfr@nlsystems.com,hackers@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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