Gdb-6.8 port

[Szekeres Adriana]

Hello,

I've ported Gdb-6.8 to MINIX. However, I didn't manage to port all the packages required to run the testsuite yet to check thoroughly Gdb's functionality so I would really appreciate if you would test gdb and report any problems you find, on the wiki page [0], in Reported Problems table.

You can find the binary here [1] and install it with:
#pkg_add -f gdb-6.8.tgz

Or you can build it from source:

#cd /usr
#make pkgsrc-create

- first you will need the latest version of gettext-lib
#cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_tarup
#bmake
#bmake install
#cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/gettetx-lib
#bmake
#bmake replace

- then compile gdb
#cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/gdb-6.8
#bmake
#bmake install

[0] http://wiki.minix3.org/en/SummerOfCode2011/Debugger
[1] http://www.shrike-systems.com/minix/packages/3.2.0/i386/All/gdb-6.8.tgz

Thank you!

Best regards,
   Adriana

[Evgeniy Ivanov]

Hi Adriana,

Congratulations, great news! :-)

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[Szekeres Adriana]

Hi Evgeniy,

   Thanks. But please make sure to test it and report any problems :)

Thank you!

Best  regards,
   Adriana

[pikpik]

Hi Adriana,

On Aug 10, 2:35 pm, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> Hi Adriana,
>
> Congratulations, great news! :-)

Congratulations too!

On Aug 10, 1:05 pm, Szekeres Adriana wrote:
>
> I've ported Gdb-6.8 to MINIX. However, I didn't manage to port all the
> packages required to run the testsuite yet to check thoroughly Gdb's
> functionality so I would really appreciate if you would test gdb and report
> any problems you find, on the wiki page [0], in Reported Problems table.
>

It is very useful already. After compiling a target with debugging
symbols ("gcc -d -dgdb ...," I think), running GDB with it and using
the backtrace command worked very well.

There were some issues with interactive input and line formatting.
These have been noted (hopefully understandibly) on the wiki. Overall
it was great to use.

Thank you very much for spending your time to work on this!

pikpik

[Szekeres Adriana]

Hi pikpik,

Thank you very much for taking the time to test it! Thank you for your comments on the wiki! I tried to reproduce them but I don't get the same output (i.e. line formatting works ok). However, I don't think it is a bug in GDB, but in other stuff it uses (like gettetxt-lib meybe?, I don't know). I will check.

[pikpik]

Hi Adriana,

On Aug 18, 2:55 am, Szekeres Adriana wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:50 AM, pikpik wrote:
> >
> > There were some issues with interactive input and line formatting.
> > These have been noted (hopefully understandibly) on the wiki. Overall
> > it was great to use.
>
> Thank you very much for taking the time to test it! Thank you for your
> comments on the wiki! I tried to reproduce them but I don't get the same
> output (i.e. line formatting works ok). However, I don't think it is a bug
> in GDB, but in other stuff it uses (like gettetxt-lib meybe?, I don't know).
> I will check.

After testing with the package you sent me, those issues disappeared.
So, on the wiki I've marked them as "solved."

> Thank you!

You're welcome, and thank you!

pikpik

[Szekeres Adriana]

Hi pikpik,

Thanks a lot! I will also check today the other issues we discussed on IRC.

Best regards,
   Adriana