-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3808 2008-05-13 03:33:14 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gdb Product : Fedora 9 Version : 6.8 Release : 5.fc9 URL : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/ Summary : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages Description : GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix a GDB crash when the loaded executable file changes beneath. Fix debugging of an executable which exec()s another executable. Fix debugging 32-bit PIEs (Position-Independent-Executable) by 64-bit GDB. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Apr 27 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-5 - Remove the kernel VDSO workaround (`no loadable ...') (kernel BZ 312011). * Wed Apr 23 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-4 - Backport fix on various forms of threads tracking across exec() (BZ 442765). - Testsuite: Include more biarch libraries on %{multilib_64_archs}. - Disable the build-id warnings for the testsuite run as they cause some FAILs. - Fix PIE support for 32bit inferiors on 64bit debugger. - Fix trashing memory on one ada/gnat testcase. - Make the testsuite results on ada more stable. * Wed Apr 16 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-3 - Fix ia64 compilation errors (Yi Zhan, BZ 442684). - Fix build on non-standard rpm-devel includes (Robert Scheck, BZ 442449). - Do not run the PIE mode for the testsuite during `--with upstream'. - Fix test of the crash on a sw watchpoint condition getting out of the scope. * Fri Apr 11 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-2 - Fix a regression due to PIE of reloading a changed exec file (BZ 433410). - Include also biarch libgcc on %{multilib_64_archs} for the testsuite. - Cosmetic fix of a testcase sanity breakpoint setting (part of BZ 233852). - New test of hiding unexpected breakpoints on intentional step commands. - New test of GCORE for shmid 0 shared memory mappings. - New test of a crash on `focus cmd', `focus prev' commands. - Fix a minor test race of the hardware watchpoints after the fork call. - Test crash on a sw watchpoint condition getting out of the scope. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #442449 - Please add "missing" -I/usr/include/rpm option to CFLAGS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442449 [ 2 ] Bug #433410 - gdb: double free or corruption when restarting program after symbols changed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433410 [ 3 ] Bug #442765 - crashes attempting to debug rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442765 [ 4 ] Bug #442684 - 3 gdb build errors on ia64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442684 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gdb' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce