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Re: gdb/455: GDB-current doesn't build on FreeBSD 4.4
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: kettenis at gnu dot org
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 27 Sep 2002 20:28:03 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/455: GDB-current doesn't build on FreeBSD 4.4
- Reply-to: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/455; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
To: phil@fsel.com, gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com, gdb-prs@sources.redhat.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: gdb/455: GDB-current doesn't build on FreeBSD 4.4
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:21:49 +0200 (CEST)
Well, FreeBSD-4.4-STABLE isn't an official FreeBSD release, but a
development version somewhere along the route from 4.4-RELEASE to
4.5-RELEASE. I don't think one can expect GDB to support arbitrary
development versions of an OS. It's not trivial to fix this.
Somewhere along 4.4-STABLE support for traditional a.out core files
was removed from FreeBSD. The current bfd/configure.in uses the
release number to decide whether to include support for those core
files in BFD. That's why it breaks for 4.4-STABLE after the change
that removes the core file support. We could use an autoconf test
instead, but there are more important things to do than fixing this.
Mark