svn commit: r277497 - head

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jan 22 00:43:39 UTC 2015


> On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21 January 2015 at 16:49, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 16:45 -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
>>> On 21 January 2015 at 15:20, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> I don't think
>>>> there's a single addr2line binary I can install that will work with
>>>> every object on the system.
>>> 
>>> There is, in fact - ELF Tool Chain's addr2line will work regardless of
>>> the object's architecture.
>>> 
>>> However, I'm happy enough to revert this change (and add a comment
>>> about non-build use cases) if you like.
>> 
>> Do you mean the new one you're working on?  Because that doesn't seem to
>> be true of the one installed on my 10-stable system right now.  If it is
>> true of the new one, that's a much better solution, and I can get by
>> until it's ready for prime time, I think.
> 
> Yes, the new one I've been working on. It's now the default in HEAD
> (along with nm, strings, size, etc.).
> 
> Bringing this to stable/10 would be tricky because it depends on the
> new libdwarf in 11 that's not backwards compatible. For that reason
> perhaps I ought to just leave them in the cross-tools stage, until we
> can assume developers are generally cross building from an 11.x host.

There’s little harm in leaving it in, and some harm in taking it out… The time to build
this stuff is tiny...

Warner



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