Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:58:14 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@tpgi.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: gnu/19733: GDB 4.18 is not GDB 4.18 Message-ID: <200007060858.SAA98102@andrew1.lnk.telstra.net>
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>Number: 19733 >Category: gnu >Synopsis: GDB 4.18 is not GDB 4.18 >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 06 02:00:03 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andrew Cagney >Release: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD b1.cygnus.com 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Jun 2 20:32:49 EST 2000 root@b1.cygnus.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/B2pcm i386 >Description: The GDB distributed with FreeBSD 3.4 (I suspect as do future and past versions) prints the version information: cagney@b1.cygnus.com$ which gdb /usr/bin/gdb cagney@b1.cygnus.com$ gdb GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd". Unfortunatly, that can't be correct. GDB 4.18 doesn't even build on FreeBSD 3.4 :-) >How-To-Repeat: Run GDB.. >Fix: Can you please update the GDB version information in your GDB distro so that it clearly and correctly identifies the program's heritage. I don't care what, just as long as it is clear to the user that the GDB program isn't an off the shelf 4.18. (Hmm, actually I do care a little, please don't choose something like 4.18.1! :-). enjoy, Andrew Andrew Cagney GDB Maintainer >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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