From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 4 2:10:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084C214F44 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 02:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA77872; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:10:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:10:27 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Kip Macy 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > 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. We have have not made any significant changes to bfd. We are using binutils-2.9.1 in our tree since 2.9.2 has not been released (gdb-4.18 was based on a snapshot of 2.9.2). The linux folks often just bundle patches with the gdb sources which is not much different from us importing FSF sources into our CVS tree. We can generate diffs from the virgin FSF sources very easily. -- 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