Re: Debian's GDB still can't handle threads!
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 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.
I tried to apply gdb-4.18-threads.patch a while ago but failed. If someone
can do it, I'd be glad to integrate their patch (hint, hint).
On the other hand, reverting to 4.17 is not an option (4.18 fixes a lot of
bugs) and forking is not an option either.
Cordialement,
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