On 12/15/20 9:44 AM, Ed Maste wrote: > Author: emaste > Date: Tue Dec 15 17:44:19 2020 > New Revision: 368667 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368667 > > Log: > Retire obsolete GDB 6.1.1 > > GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not > support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes > limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of > DWARF2 debugging information. > > It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which > extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash. > Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed. > > Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path > for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the > excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13. > > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610
Are you going to remove the -gdwarf-2 bits from kern.mk now? (Does ctfconvert support newer DWARF?) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
