Re: problems with gdb

[Chris Blizzard <blizzard at redhat dot com>]

Jim Kingdon wrote:
> 
> > I think that the version that I have is based on a snapshot from 19991004.
> > Jim should know more.  Jim?
> 
> You are working off the gdb-4.18-10.src.rpm which is in Red Hat Linux
> 6.2beta?  While I am interested in knowing whether that version is
> totally broken for multi-threads (when combined with glibc and
> everything else from 6.2beta), I've given up on making it usable for
> Mozilla (given that 6.2beta is already frozen and the number of
> mozilla developers is small compared with the total number of people
> using Linux).  I just don't see how to do it without too much risk of
> breaking something else.
> 
> The key task is in getting GDB in CVS fixed.  You just told me to get
> Mozilla from CVS (it is building now, I know because the fan on my
> laptop is in high speed mode and will be for the next hour or so :-))
> so turnabout is fair play and I can tell you to do the same for GDB
> :-)

Yeah, I'm trying the latest snapshot ( marked today. :D )  Doesn't build but
the problems look pretty easy to fix.

--Chris

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