Re: libunwind in unstable

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

David Mosberger writes:
> >>>>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:26:01 +0100, Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:
> 
>   Matthias> From my point of view we can get around with it by
>   Matthias> including the libunwind shared library in libgcc1 for the
>   Matthias> sarge release. I'm worried about the version skew of the
>   Matthias> unwind lib ib 0.98.3 and GCC-3.4.3.  There's one
>   Matthias> additional library in libunwind.
> 
> Do you mean libunwind-ia64.so.7.0.0?

yes.

> That one won't be needed by anything related to GCC (or, more
> generally, local unwinding).  Having said that, the most recent GDBs
> have a soft dependency on libunwind-ia64.so: they'll try to dlopen
> libunwind-ia64.so and if that doesn't succeed, fall back on
> code-reading (which is very unreliable, but better than nothing at
> all).  Other than GDB, I can't think of any Debian packages that would
> currently rely in libunwind-ia64.

ok, Ian, if it's ok with you, I'll prepare a libunwind upload, which
plays well with a libgcc1 package including the libunwind7 shared
libs.

	Matthias