On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 05:12:13PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> So, update gdb in base or make a recent gdb port, and 'ill happily import
> nemiver.

On the scale of one to "oh my god my eyes burn", how hard is updating gdb?

I was able to build the most recent gdb (with no patches) in my home dir
and do some trivial tests, but I refuse to believe it is that easy!

Where is that catch?

ire% ./gdb ~/test
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd4.8".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/edd/test...done.
(gdb) break 6
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1c00074a: file a.c, line 6.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/edd/test 
this is a test

Breakpoint 1, dostuff (a=8, b=5, j=3.1415) at a.c:6
6               printf("%d %d %f\n", a, b, j);
(gdb) print a
$1 = 8
(gdb) frame 0
#0  dostuff (a=8, b=5, j=3.1415) at a.c:6
6               printf("%d %d %f\n", a, b, j);
(gdb) bt
#0  dostuff (a=8, b=5, j=3.1415) at a.c:6
#1  0x1c0007d5 in main () at a.c:21


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Best Regards
Edd Barrett

http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

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