Subject: HEADS UP: GDB (help needed)!
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 03/24/1999 13:32:32
I have been losing time for NetBSD to real life, and I need some help on gdb
on various platforms! We'd like to get as much as possible in by 1.4 - at
the *very* least, have all previous platforms working - and some platforms
are not even tested with gdb 4.17.
I have re-enabled gdb on all platforms except powerpc and sparc64, so that
problems can be more rapidly identified and solved. THIS IS YOUR WARNING -
on some platforms listed below, a "make build" will result in a
nonfunctional gdb.
Here's a summary:
- alpha, mips: These are what I have been working to fix. Alpha has
general running problems; ELF shlibs aren't working on either (the
"heuristic-fence-post" message states that shlib symbol tables aren't
loaded).
I will be hacking this evening, and will post whatever I figure out thus
far tomorrow morning.
If someone on the mips front has more details on that platform's problems
(since I seem to be missing part of the picture) please fill me in.
- arm32: This is under work by the arm32 portmaster.
- m68k: NOT TESTED!
- powerpc: Does not work; needs serious help, and probably will not
be done by 1.4. There is *NO* NetBSD support; it's all AIX-centric.
- sparc64: Does not work; needs serious help, and probably will not
be done by 1.4. There is *NO* NetBSD support.
- vax: NOT TESTED!
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)