From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Daniel Berlin" <dan@cgsoftware.com>
To: "Mark Kettenis" <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>, <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: GDB & FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:17:00 -0000
Message-id: <BAEMJNPFHMFPEFAGBKKAKEFICCAA.dan@cgsoftware.com>
References: <200005211217.e4LCHPv00623@delius.kettenis.local>
X-SW-Source: 2000-05/msg00100.html

IMHO, yes.
BTW, all you needed to do was take the patches from the FreeBSD cvs tree,
and make a few small changes, and you'd be golden.
I lost them when my HD crashed a few weeks ago, unfortunately.

Also realize FreeBSD 4.0 is ELF, while 3.4 is a.out.

--Dan
>
> Hi All,
>
> I spent some time on reviving GDB on FreeBSD.  Not too difficult since
> it turns out that I can re-use a lot of code from the NetBSD port
> (thanks J.T. :-)).
>
> However, in doing so, I've probably killed support for older FreeBSD
> systems (I suspect that the same happened with NetBSD).  From looking
> at the FreeBSD CVS tree, FreeBSD 2.2 (which was released in March
> 1997) and up should be fine (I did my work on FreeBSD 3.4).  On older
> systems GDB will not compile.
>
> Is this acceptable?
>
> Mark