svn commit: r368667 - in head: . gnu/usr.bin gnu/usr.bin/binutils gnu/usr.bin/gdb tools/build/mk

[John Baldwin]

On 12/15/20 9:44 AM, Ed Maste wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Tue Dec 15 17:44:19 2020
> New Revision: 368667
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368667
> 
> Log:
>   Retire obsolete GDB 6.1.1
>   
>   GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not
>   support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes
>   limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of
>   DWARF2 debugging information.
>   
>   It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which
>   extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash.
>   Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed.
>   
>   Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path
>   for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the
>   excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13.
>   
>   Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
>   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610

Are you going to remove the -gdwarf-2 bits from kern.mk now?

(Does ctfconvert support newer DWARF?)

-- 
John Baldwin