Re: gdb dropped from ia64

On Dec 22, 2022, at 23:19, Pedro Miguel Justo <pmsjt@texair.net> wrote:

On Dec 22, 2022, at 00:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi Pedro!

On 12/22/22 08:29, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:

With the latest turn of the crank we just lost gdb. It was flagged as a broken packaged and removed.
The broken dependency is:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdebuginfod1 : Depends: libdebuginfod-common (>= 0.188-2) but 0.188-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

gdb didn't drop ia64 support, you just ran into this problem:

Sorry that’s is not what I meant. Drop here was regarding the Distro (it gets uninstalled when you do apt upgrade) due to the new missing dependency.

Small update on gdb itself:

Today gdb installs fine again. I guess the dependent package did complete building.

But installing doesn’t mean it works. It currently doesn’t. Here is the output of a simple session: [1]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

Adrian

To make things a bit more complicated, gdbserver still installs but is not functional.

pmsjt@debian:~$ gdbserver :50012 /usr/bin/ls
Process /usr/bin/ls created; pid = 9960
Listening on port 50012
Remote debugging from host ::ffff:192.168.1.85, port 43748
/build/gdb-ynSPoI/gdb-10.1/gdbserver/tdesc.cc:195: A problem internal to GDBserver has been detected.
const char* tdesc_get_features_xml(const target_desc*): Assertion `tdesc->xmltarget != NULL || (!tdesc->features.empty () && tdesc->arch != NULL)' failed.

pmsjt@debian:~/hello_world$ gdb hello_world

GNU gdb (Debian 10.1-2) 10.1.90.20210103-git

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Reading symbols from hello_world...

(gdb) break main

Breakpoint 1 at 0x4000000000000601: file hello_world.c, line 5.

(gdb) run

Starting program: /home/pmsjt/hello_world/hello_world

Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.

Aborted

pmsjt@debian:~/hello_world$