Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:08:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@eng.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: gdb Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950917195952.6813B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
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I saw on the usenet somewhere (I forget, gnu-something maybe) a reference to an extension to gdb called gdbtk. I found it at ftp.cygnus.com, and built it. It appears to have a neat interface, but like all gdb versions that haven't been handcrafted to the FreeBSD executeable format, it couldn't understand it. I'd really like to play with this ... could anyone point me toward the right info to help me understand the changes that need to go into gdb to get this thing to understand us? It really seems to me that such changes could have been forwarded to cygnus, which handles the development of gdb, I understand. Then, they'd have gdb compiling for us out of the box, and it wouldn't need handcrafting all the time. Is this not done because of instability in FreeBSD'd format? I thought it'd been stable for quite some time now. Anyhow, the version that I've compiled with gdbtk is 4.14.88. If anyone wants to experiment with this, the magic incantation to get it to compile is to issue configure with --enable-gdbtk. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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