Subject: Okay, fine. About gdb...
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/11/2000 10:14:58
Since two people have emailed me privately about this (presuming that
I somehow know what I'm talking about... feh!), the Deal with gdb, to
the best of my knowledge, runs like this:

1) It doesn't exist by default.

2) It won't build out of pkgsrc.

3) This is because someone somewhere doesn't know how to handle FP
   operations on the powerpc.

(Incidentally, this isn't just us... this is every powerpc-based
port.)

Really, that's all I know. You'll get no more by picking my brain. :^>

And it all might not be true anyway, since my kernel's only at 1.4R
and things could have changed (though I doubt that). Yes, I know I
need to get with the program. I'm busy.

Perhaps we can talk this over and fix it, though? I don't really have
time to deal with it this week, but I'd be glad to take a look (though
I thought I was going to go play with the swim3 when I had time for
NetBSD work... ::sigh::) if someone gave me a starting point.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net