Re: gdb-cvs packages available
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:48:41AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Could you please clarify? I run the Debian packaged GDB on PowerPC
> > all the time. I've not had the slightest problem with it, beyond
> > threads and the like.
>
> Well, I just tried 5.0 again, and it does work for me. Weird.
> Before, it simply segfaulted when I started it. Then again, that was
> a while ago, when I was also getting random illegal instructions from
> the dynamic linker...
>
> Regardless though, my application does use pthreads, which the CVS
> version of GDB seems to grok well enough, so I'll probably maintain
> the gdb-cvs package until 5.1 is released.
Indeed, you could do that... or I could finish adopting GDB :) I just
got permission from the maintainer to take it; I'll be uploading a CVS
snapshot to unstable to simply replace 5.0, seeing as there's no
noticeable testsuite regressions or even usability regressions in my
experience.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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