Re: gdb 8.3: "handler for the OSI ABI "FreeBSD" is not built into this configuration"

Simon Marchi
2020-05-24T14:05:40Z

On 2020-05-23 9:55 p.m., Chris Nicol wrote:
> Thanks, Martin. Yes, when the gdb_6.1.1 did not work, I first had a look
> to build the 9.1 in /usr/ports/devel/gdb, but the Makefile indicates
> NOT_FOR_ARCHS= sparc64, and a comment above it "untested on sparc64,
> might work". Not encouraged, I went on to build the 9.1 from the gnu
> source. Maybe I will try the /usr/ports version if I comment out the
> NOT_FOR_ARCHS, since there might be some tweaks in there that is
> specific to FreeBSD.
>
> I will also try what you are suggesting below. Hard to track down the
> llvm-tblgen problem when I can't debug why it is seg. faulting... and
> getting some help on the llvm list has been pretty fruitless.
>
> Chris.

For the moment, since you don't have a working GDB, it might be easier
to just add printfs to understand why function `can_run_code_for` does
not return true when it gets at the FreeBSD/sparc64 one.

Simon