Jonathan Adams wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:36:43AM -0400, Richard Lowe wrote:
>> "max at bruningsystems.com" <max at bruningsystems.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> John Levon wrote:
>>>> To my mind, maintaining some level of compatibility is useful in itself.
>>>> mdb.eng's mdb wrapper notwithstanding, it can still be troublesome.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> Great!  When is mdb.eng going to be accessible on opensolaris?  How 
>>> about mdb.eng's
>>> mdb wrapper?
>>>
>> $SRC/cmd/mdb/tools/scripts, would seem to be the wrapper and
>> associated, or, at least, a collection of things that behave very
>> similarly to what is described.
> 
> Indeed;  this has unfortunately atrophied (and relies on being inside the 
> SWAN);
> I'm looking in to reviving it, but I don't know how much will be available
> for opensolaris.

It seems to me that if we made use of the onnv_XX tags that
have been going into the Mercurial clone for a while, then
it shouldn't be too hard to regenerate the per-build mdb dmods
and usr/bin/$ISADIR/mdb command.


James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
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