From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127295 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2018 15:00:59 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 126936 invoked by uid 89); 26 Sep 2018 15:00:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*u:Webmail, H*UA:Roundcube, H*u:Roundcube, H*F:D*ca X-HELO: smtp.polymtl.ca Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca (HELO smtp.polymtl.ca) (132.207.4.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:00:36 +0000 Received: from simark.ca (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w8QF0P8T032732 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:00:30 -0400 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id AD8CC1E5A4; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from simark.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521EE1E186; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:00:25 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:00:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi To: Gary Benson Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Minimum kernel and glibc versions to build on GNU/Linux? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <320801121f7fa389eaa3e149de74d230@polymtl.ca> X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 On 2018-09-26 10:53, Gary Benson wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there specific minimum kernel and glibc versions required to build > GDB or gdbserver on GNU/Linux? I'm working on a refactor that's > complicated by workarounds for ancient versions of both (circa 2002) > and I'm wondering if I can just drop the workarounds. > > Cheers, > Gary Hi Gary, I'd say that if something was introduced in 2002, we can safely assume it will be available. But it would be easier to tell if you specified which particular feature you would like to rely on. Simon