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


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