From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Cc: brobecker@gnat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/AIX] xm-aix4.h - Remove vfork redefine
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41162C73.30401@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408081237.i78CbkY9015110@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:55:34 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
>
> config/xm-aix4.h contains the following define:
>
> | /* There is no vfork. */
> |
> | #define vfork fork
>
> I think we should add a (link) test in configure for that. But the other
> alternative is to do as we did for HP/UX (but the reason we did it that
> way for HP/UX is because vfork is broken on this system).
>
> Autoconf already handles that. There should be a "#define vfork fork"
> in your config.h.
In the case of HP, while autoconf indicates the presence of vfork, it
doesn't (can't) detect the brokenness(1) that stops it working with GDB
:-( That may be the situtation here, but then it easily also be a
hangover from a defunct AIX version, or even a cut/paste error :-/
Joel, I'd just try it and see.
Andrew
(1) The combination of vfork, exec and ptrace
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-08 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-08 4:55 Joel Brobecker
2004-08-08 12:37 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-08-08 13:37 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-08-09 5:51 ` Joel Brobecker
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