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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:35:02 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 ddb.4
Message-ID:  <20060325003135.I7209@epsplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060324021513.C94486@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>> There's a bogus conditional in i386/i386/machdep.c that should be
>> removed:
>> 
>> revision 1.596
>> date: 2004/07/19 02:46:34;  author: silby;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
>> Add a #error requiring KDB if DDB is specified.  (This can probably be
>> relocated to a better place, if one exists.)
>> 
>> It has found its way to amd64 as well and therefore may be elsewhere
>> (not ia64, as that works as expected).
>> 
>> -- 
>> Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net
>
> I added that conditional because DDB w/o KDB didn't work at the time, and the 
> weird way it failed to link was very confusing.  If the two are now 
> independent, then by all means remove the check.

Removing it doesn't work in at least 6.0.  IIRC, the error involves KDB not
knowing that DDB is there.

Bruce



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