Re: Experiences building and using gdb 6.8 on Solaris

[Frank Middleton <f dot middleton at apogeect dot com>]

On 04/29/09 14:02, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> I assumed you'd be using a "normal" CVS build (with "-g -O2"), not a
> stripped binary.

Of course, What was I thinking? Output from unstripped binary attached.

> I am not sure there *are* any Solaris maintainers.

From my perspective, this is a regression from Solaris 9, where gdb
(6.0) didn't have this problem with libXau. gdb 6.0 and later do,
probably as of Solaris 10. I really meant Solaris libXau maintainers,
if there are any. They have accepted it as a bug, so I suppose they
will (eventually) fix libXau. As you suggest, they probably won't
address gdb since unsurprisingly they mostly use dbx. Personally I
find gdb much easier to use and it does everything I need it to.
Having said that, they do ship gdb with Solaris Nevada, in /usr/bin
no less. To get dbx is an extra download...

> > It is quite
> > conceivable that upgrading from snv103 to snv112 might fix this problem,
> > so does anyone at gdb want to work on this before I do so?
>
> I'd say you should get the "full" stack trace first. This may give enough
> clues to someone. If you want to upgrade your machine to snv112, it would
> probably be wise to save the offending libXau first (just in case someone
> desires to look at the problem later).

OK, no problem; I will save the offending libXau somewhere. It obviously
won't be (isn't) fixed in snv112 but I'll save this one as baseline anyway.

Cheers -- Frank

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