GDB 4.17.0.6 Problems

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sat Dec 19 18:26:00 GMT 1998


> 
>   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
>   Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:14:24 -0800 (PST)
> 
>   gdb 4.17.0.6 needs glibc 2 to compile due to the Linux thread support.
>   You can use my precompiled gdb binary on x86. It is statically linked
>   so that it should run on libc 5 based system.
> 

I put a diff for gdb 4.17.0.7 at

ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/gdb-4.17.0.6-4.17.0.7.diff.gz

The main differences from 4.17.0.6 are

1. libc 5 support.
2. Glibc 2.1 thread support. BTW, I think CLONE_PTRACE added to linuxthreads
in glibc 2.1 breaks gdb.

Thanks.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)



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