In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> Richard Cownie wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Are you saying 4.17 is better than 4.18 for debugging C++? Or are you
> > > saying you didn't know FreeBSD comes with gdb:
> >
> > gdb-4.18 is badly broken on all platforms (at least for C++). You can't
> > call methods from the gdb command line, and also it frequently freezes
> > to the point where you have to kill the window. gdb-4.17 is much better
> > for C++.
>
> There's a port for gdb-4.17 sitting on my ftp site at:
>
> ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/FreeBSD/gdb-4.17-port.tar.gz
>
> The port includes changes made to the gdb in our base system
> (then, Mar 1999, it was gdb-4.15 I believe). I haven't made
> any further updates to it since. You're welcome to play around
> with it.
Did anyone of you took care that you can build an aout gdb on an ELF
FreeBSD system?
I don't mean a gdb that is aout, but one that can debug aout binaries.
That would be most useful to have as a port. Just step to
`/usr/ports/devel/aout-gdb && make install` and it uses
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb or fetches some other source by itself if it
can't use native sources. The modula-3 port does something in that
line, uses /usr/src if it can.
Martin
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