Patch: gdb -vs- Debian 2.0

Jimmy Guo guo@cup.hp.com
Fri Nov 19 10:55:00 GMT 1999


On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Tom Tromey wrote:

>Jimmy> One more bit of information -- gdb used to compile on Linux
>Jimmy> Redhat 5.1 (the PC cannot be upgraded to more recent versions
>Jimmy> due to onboard SCSI controller <-> Linux driver problem), but
>Jimmy> some time ago quite recently I have to compile gdb on Linux
>Jimmy> Redhat 6.0, probably due to the same change Tom's patch is
>Jimmy> trying to fix.
>
>Was the problem that PTRACE_GETREGS was not defined?  If so, then that
>is a slightly different problem, with a slightly different fix.
>PTRACE_GETREGS is defined on my machine, it just doesn't work.

Just tried a build on the Redhat 5.1 system ... yes,
PTRACE_(GET|SET)[FP]REGS were not defined.

- Jimmy Guo, guo@cup.hp.com



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