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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:06:58 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        James Butt <jbutt@noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GDB & 3.0 & aout
Message-ID:  <19981023110658.T28824@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810221322530.329-100000@noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net>; from James Butt on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 01:25:39PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810221322530.329-100000@noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net>

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On Thursday, 22 October 1998 at 13:25:39 -0500, James Butt wrote:
>
> If I compile a program with the -aout switch to cc I am unable to use gdb
> to debug it under 3.0..  I have to use aout due to vendor supplied libs.
>
> I get a unrecognized executabe error.
>
> Is there a way to make gdb work? I have tried copying a copy of gdb from a
> 2.2.6 machine (while I did not expect this to work it did recognize the
> binnary but it did not work)

There should be a way to build an a.out version of gdb, but it's not
easy.  You can find one on ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/vinum/gdb-aout.

Greg
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