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Re: GDB build on linuxppc?


I'm *not* an authority on this issue, but I poked around a bit:

It looks to me like our present sources don't support native debugging
on PPC GNU/Linux.  In gdb/config/powerpc/linux.h, we find:

NATDEPFILES= solib.o corelow.o # infptrace.o inftarg.o fork-child.o core-aout.o core-regset.o

So all the modules which might support native debugging (infptrace,
fork-child) are commented out.

Now, clearly, a native port of GDB to PPC GNU/Linux exists; I don't
see how the maintainers of the system could get by otherwise.  But for
some reason the changes haven't been folded back into our sources.