Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R
On 7/3/18 3:19 am, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, March 05, 2018 08:19:24 AM Daniel Eischen wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest�l wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable? I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate with gdb. I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if that directive is being honoured these days. It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures. Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty. I used to like ddd also. You might try devel/gps. It's more than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging. Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly to ddd. I patched ddd to use pts (was a short patch) but it still hangs for me with both old and new gdb. I think it is unfortunately abandonware. :( what a pitty. it was really nice to use (if you had a big screen) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R
On Monday, March 05, 2018 08:19:24 AM Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest�l wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: > > > >> can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable? > > > > I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old > > pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate > > with gdb. > > > > I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if > > that directive is being honoured these days. > > > > It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures. > > Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty. > > I used to like ddd also. You might try devel/gps. It's more > than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging. > Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly > to ddd. I patched ddd to use pts (was a short patch) but it still hangs for me with both old and new gdb. I think it is unfortunately abandonware. :( -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrest?l wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable? I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate with gdb. I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if that directive is being honoured these days. It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures. Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty. I used to like ddd also. You might try devel/gps. It's more than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging. Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly to ddd. -- DE___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: > can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable? I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate with gdb. I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if that directive is being honoured these days. It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures. Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty. Going back to 10.x could be a workaround. > It seems that ddd from the ports is hanging while trying to get a > connection to gdb, tried the system gdb and the gdb-8.0.1 from the > ports. > What's happening here? -- Trond. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
