On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: >> >I am trying to debug XFree86 at the source code level on Red Hat 8.0 but >> >not having much like. I force installed gdb-5.1.1-2.0xfree from the RPM >> >file from Red Hat's site, but when I do 'gdb X' gdb crashes with a >> >segmentation fault. >> >> gdb-xfree is currently not completely working solidly in 8.0 and >> later. It works for me to some extent but isn't perfect. I don't >> really grok gdb internals too well though, so I've gotten our gdb >> engineers to look into fixing gdb for once and for all in stock FSF >> gdb. No ETA unfortunately, but I'll likely announce it on devel@ >> though when there's something to play with that is useful. > >Ok, it sounds like I should perhaps back level my debugging machine to >Red Hat 7.2 or 7.3? A guy working for me remote in Australia tells me >that he is using the patched 5.1.1 just fine on RH 7.2...
I would recommend an rpm rebuild of gdb-xfree86 on 8.0 first to see if it is reliable enough for you or not, failing that in 7.3 it works pretty flawless for me. >But when you do get this into the stock gdb, please let us all know ;-) Absolutely. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
