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From: maziere1@das.harvard.edu (David Mazieres)
Subject: SunOS + gdb <====> BSD 4.4 + kgdb_stubs on Sparc ?
Message-ID: <1993Dec8.071711.19809@das.harvard.edu>
Originator: dm@garage
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Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 07:17:11 GMT
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Does anyone out there have version of gdb that can run under SunOS and
debug a BSD 4.4 kernel over a serial line?
BSD came with two versions of gdb, version 4.7 (/usr/bin/gdb) and
version 4.4 (/usr/contrib/bin/gdb-4.4.lbl). Version 4.7 seems to have
serious trouble reading the values of global variables. Version 4.4
seems to work well. However, I could only find source to version 4.7
on the distribution tape.
I tried configuring the version of 4.7 included as
./configure sparc-sun-sunos -target=sparc-sun-bsd
but the build ran into serious problems, for instance with the
sparcbsd-tdep.c file, which seemed to require a mixture of sunos and
bsd header files. Moreover, I don't want to waste to much time compiling
gdb 4.7, since it seems to have other problems anyway.
If anyone out there is debugging BSD kernels from a sunos machine, could
you tell me what you are doing? If not, can someone tell me where I can
ftp source code for gdb-4.4.lbl (an archie search turns up blank)?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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