Re: Debian's GDB still can't handle threads! (or Ada!)
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:17:54PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I am almost at the point of filing a release-critical bug against gdb,
> but I thought I'd ask here first so more people can flame me if I'm an idiot ;-)
>
> Basically, here's the problem: gdb, as distributed by Debian, cannot debug
> threaded programs in any meaningful way. (see bugs #37983, #28058, #36642,
> #37672, and #44536)
Note that the current gdb cannot debug Ada programs either. I believe this
to be primarily because the Ada support needs the threading support.
> changed; only the Debian build number can move. Therefore, it seems to me
> that someone should, if possible, either (1) revert gdb to a version that
> works with threads (yuck), or (2) patch the current gdb to at least sort-of
> work with threads. [ this is probably good enough for most stuff -- another
> BTS entry says that the RedHat version does this, could someone look at it? ]
>
> Does anyone see a better solution?
One solution that came up earlier was to offer a package, named
gdb4.17 or gdb-ada-threads or something, that was slink's gdb
packaged for Potato. Slink's gdb works fine on Potato. This idea
only needs a maintainer to upload it. (cc'ed to our wonderful
GNAT maintainer in hopes for a working Ada debugger for potato.)
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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