Re: Debian's GDB still can't handle threads!
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:17:54PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Basically, here's the problem: gdb, as distributed by Debian, cannot debug
> threaded programs in any meaningful way. (see bugs #37983, #28058, #36642,
> #37672, and #44536) I think that this is a serious problem, and that releasing
> a Debian which is broken in this regard -- especially given that history
> suggests that users may have to live with it for a year or so -- should not
> even be considered as an option if anything else is possible [1]. I filed two
No you're absolutely right. It makes it very difficult, for example, for
Debian users/developers to participate in Mozilla development.
Note that there are definitely patches for 4.18 to allow debugging threads,
and that Red Hat uses them:
dhd@blood-axp:/home/big/src/redhat/SOURCES$ ls
gdb-4.17-xref.patch gdb-4.18-sparcmin.patch gdb-4.18.tar.gz
gdb-4.18-sigtramp.patch gdb-4.18-testsuite.tar.gz
gdb-4.18-sparc.patch gdb-4.18-threads.patch
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm not sure how well they work, but seeing as Mozilla is being developed
primarily on Red Hat 6.x I presume they work well enough.
I suggest that we either downgrade to HJ's 4.17 for potato or at least apply
the thread-debugging patch.
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