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Re: Bug#394381: gdb: FTBFS, indirectly uses PAGE_SIZE



reassign 394381 glibc
forcemerge 394385 394381
thanks

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:52:58PM -0600, Troy Heber wrote:
> On 10/20/06 18:20, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > I might be wrong, but I think that this is a bug in glibc; I understand
> > why it can't provide PAGE_SIZE, but it ought to provide NBPG if it's
> > going to bother to provide "struct user" (a purely legacy format) at
> > all.  It seems like a hideous hack to have to try to compile NBPG in
> > autoconf.

> I agree which is why I also filed a Bug #394385 against glibc. I
> filled both because I'm not positive where this should get handled.
> I would venture to guess that there should be a patch both in the
> glibc header and in gdb.

Since a patch is available for bug #394385, and gdb doesn't make any use of
the l-k-h PAGE_SIZE declaration directly, I think this bug definitely
belongs to glibc as there is no reason to patch gdb.  Reassigning
accordingly.

Cheers,
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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