From: Brian Wang <brian.wang.0721@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Problem Compiling gdbserver with musl
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:50:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPW=hRRp7K86A+VhFZSs-e+FpefxdeO0x8FXnq0FN2q_jMNh0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508405B4.40507@barfooze.de>
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:24 PM, John Spencer
<maillist-musl@barfooze.de> wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 11:19 AM, Brian Wang wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:54 PM, John Spencer<maillist-musl@barfooze.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> hello brian, please forward your bug report to gdb mailing list.
>>> clearly gdb devs should check if these facilities are available before
>>> using
>>> them.
>>> we must raise awareness of such issues upstream.
>>
>> I guess gdb development is somehow tightly coupled with glibc, which
>> supplies libthread_db.
>> I remember seeing similar issues reported:
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13011
>>
>
> gdb is supposed to be usable on multiple archs and platforms; but apparently
> they think linux == glibc; which is clearly not always the case.
> the lwp_info and THREADDB stuff is used unconditionally, even though they
> checked for HAVE_THREADDB_H during configure.
>
> it would definitely help if they get your bug report, even if it serves just
> a reminder that GNU is not alone out there.
> once the critical mass of bug reports is reached, they will finally fix
> these issues.
> heck, even if they removed the braindead -Werror-by-default, this would be a
> big improvement.
Just done filing the bug report and hope gdbserver will compile and work
with or without libthread_db in the near future. :-)
brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-21 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 6:13 Brian Wang
2012-10-19 12:30 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 9:12 ` Brian Wang
2012-10-19 13:54 ` John Spencer
2012-10-19 14:17 ` John Spencer
2012-10-21 9:19 ` Brian Wang
2012-10-21 14:24 ` John Spencer
2012-10-21 15:50 ` Brian Wang [this message]
2012-10-21 14:32 ` Rich Felker
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