cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/lib/libthread_db Makefile

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote:

>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:49 AM, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>>>>> jeff        2008-03-12 09:49:39 UTC
>>>>> FreeBSD src repository
>>>>> Modified files:
>>>>> lib                  Makefile
>>>>> lib/libthread_db     Makefile
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> - Remove libkse and related support code in libpthread from the  
>>>>> build.
>>>>> Don't remove the files yet.  Kernel support will be removed  
>>>>> shortly.
>>>> I think removing support to debug processes that link
>>>> against libkse is premature. You want to keep the
>>>> support for at least a full major release, but ideally
>>>> until the last release branch that supported KSE is
>>>> obsoleted.
>>> Hey Marcel,
>>> I thought about that but I'm not sure how it would work.  Any  
>>> debugging would have to happen on a kernel that supported KSE.   
>>> That kernel will have to be 7.x or prior.
>>
>> I was thinking about core files. There's no need for kernel
>> support in that case, but we do need suport in libthread_db
>> in order to extract thread state from the core file.
>> FYI,
>
> Oh excellent point.  I'll restore that.  I can move the kse.h file  
> from the Attic into libthread_db.  I hadn't deleted the library or  
> the thread_db yet incase something like this came up.


Thanks; and thanks for taking care of the ia64 tinderbox failure :-)

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Marcel Moolenaar
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