re: bin/54154 (NetBSD gdb does not interoperate with qemu 4.0.0 gdb stub)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54154; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kamil%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
    gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: re: bin/54154 (NetBSD gdb does not interoperate with qemu 4.0.0 gdb stub)
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 06:32:50 +1000

 >  > src/external/gpl3/gdb/dist/gdb/nbsd-nat.c r1.9
 >  > =
 
 >  > Does it fix the problem for you?
 >  =
 
 >  No, it does not: with sources from 2019.05.04.15.46.58, I get:
 >  =
 
 >    (gdb) target remote guido.araneus.fi:1234
 >    Remote debugging using guido.araneus.fi:1234
 >    warning: Can not parse XML target description; XML support was disabl=
 ed at compile time
 >    Remote 'g' packet reply is too long (expected 308 bytes, got 344 byte=
 s): 20000000040000002[...]
 >  =
 
 >  This is without any "set architecture" command; I have not tested
 >  this version with one.
 
 we may want to publish our xsrc libexpat into src and enable it,
 like christos posted about..
 
 you can get around this by using tools/gdb when expat is visible
 while building, and then it should work.
 
 
 .mrg.