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Hi, I work on the team porting Sun JDK to linuxppc, mklinux, linux-pmac. These ports have generally chosen to use egcs-1.0.2 since it is much better then gcc-2.7.2 on powerpc and does not have the problems gcc-2.8 has on powerpc. Unfortunately, the gdb 4.16 that previously worked under gcc -2.7.2 does not work any longer with things compiled with the new tools (egcs-1.0.2, binutils-2.8.1.0.20, etc I have recently downloaded, patched and built gdb 4.16.86 to work under linux on powerpc (with the help of Kevin Buettner) but the result is next to worthless when trying to debug anything with shared-libraries (skipped breakpoints, missing symbols, general instability). Following the FAQ of egcs, I have tried compiling things with -gstabs which did not help at all either. Do you have any timetable for getting gdb 4.17 out? We desperately need a working gdb. I would be happy to make our gdb diffs for powerpc available to you if it would help. Also I would be happy to act as a tester on linux for powerpc. If there is anything I can do to speed the process of getting a working gdb 4.17, please let me know. Thanks, Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology School of Business, College of William & Mary, 307 Tyler Hall, P.O.Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 (757) 221-1702, kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu; http://business.tyler.wm.edu