From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22982 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2010 21:41:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 22970 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Apr 2010 21:41:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bromo.med.uc.edu (HELO bromo.med.uc.edu) (129.137.3.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:41:43 +0000 Received: from bromo.med.uc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bromo.med.uc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432BEB0048 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from howarth@localhost) by bromo.med.uc.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o34LffB4016048 for gdb@sourceware.org; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:41:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:41:00 -0000 From: Jack Howarth To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: gdb on darwin solved! Message-ID: <20100404214141.GA16040@bromo.med.uc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 It turns out that the solution to running FSF gdb on darwin9.8.0 or darwin10 is trivial. There is a gap in the codesigning for gdb apparently. The user just has to do... chgrp procmod fsf-gdb chmod g+s fsf-gdb on the installed FSF gdb binary. This will gain it access to the required Mach port without having to resort to sudo. Nice. Jack