** HEADS UP ** GDB detached from the 5-CURRENT build

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:26:42PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:22:54PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> >>David O'Brien wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have disconnected (i.e., disabled) `gdb` from 'make world' due to the
> >>>impending binutils 2.15 import.  GDB 5.12 cannot consume the 2.15 bfd and
> >>>libiberty.
> >>>
> >>>For now GDB users will have to use the devel/gdb6 port.  There will be an
> >>>import of GDB 6.x into the /usr/src tree before 5.3-RELEASE.
> >>>
> >>How long it may take?
> >>
> >Not sure.  But it would be emancely useful if people would use the gdb6
> >port so gdb6 gets wider testing on FreeBSD before 5.3.
> 
> I hope I wouldn't need to test it beofre 5.3 :-)
> rik

This was a quite content-free message.  You've just given up your rights
to complain one bit if gdb 6.1 doesn't work for you in FreeBSD 5.3.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)