DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R

[Julian Elischer]

On 7/3/18 3:19 am, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, March 05, 2018 08:19:24 AM Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest�l wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>>
>>>> can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable?
>>> I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old
>>> pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate
>>> with gdb.
>>>
>>> I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if
>>> that directive is being honoured these days.
>>>
>>> It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures.
>>> Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty.
>> I used to like ddd also.  You might try devel/gps.  It's more
>> than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging.
>> Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly
>> to ddd.
> I patched ddd to use pts (was a short patch) but it still hangs for me
> with both old and new gdb.  I think it is unfortunately abandonware. :(
>
what a pitty. it was really nice to use (if you had a big screen)