Bug 19733
| Summary: | GDB 4.18 is not GDB 4.18 | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Andrew Cagney <cagney> |
| Component: | gnu | Assignee: | Mark Peek <mp> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 3.4-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Andrew Cagney
2000-07-06 10:00:03 UTC
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->dfr I _think_ Doug is the right person to handle this. Responsible Changed From-To: dfr->obrien This is probably more for me. >Unfortunatly, that can't be correct. GDB 4.18 doesn't even build on >FreeBSD 3.4 :-) It does with some configureation tweaks. >Can you please update the GDB version information in your GDB distro >so that it clearly and correctly identifies the program's heritage. "GNU gdb 4.18" does not do this? >I don't care what, just as long as it is clear to the user that the GDB >program isn't an off the shelf 4.18. (Hmm, actually I do care a little, >please don't choose something like 4.18.1! :-). Why is this such an issue? David O'Brien wrote: > >Can you please update the GDB version information in your GDB distro > >so that it clearly and correctly identifies the program's heritage. > > "GNU gdb 4.18" does not do this? It is GDB 4.18 + some configuration tweeks. > >I don't care what, just as long as it is clear to the user that the GDB > >program isn't an off the shelf 4.18. (Hmm, actually I do care a little, > >please don't choose something like 4.18.1! :-). > > Why is this such an issue? It isn't so much an ``issue'' as common sense :-). Anyone doing a patched GDB distro really should identify it as such. Otherwize no one (least of all the person doing the distro) will know if a customers bug is against that custom GDB distro, the GDB trunk, or even someone elses custom GDB distro. Just imagine, for a moment, what would happen if everyone decided to do their own custom OS distribution and each one contained a GDB with a slightly different set of patches ... ;-) Enjoy, Andrew Responsible Changed From-To: obrien->mp As stated in the audit trails of various other PRs, orbien is not the gdb maintainer. Mark Peek is. Given that the GDB distribution maintainer asked us a year and a half ago to change the version string in the binary we redistribute, we really should have done it by now. Mark, if Andrew's happy with this patch, please apply it so we can forget about this. Thanks, Sheldon. Index: alpha/version.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/alpha/version.c,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -d -r1.1 version.c --- alpha/version.c 2 May 1999 11:32:05 -0000 1.1 +++ alpha/version.c 30 Jan 2002 13:35:33 -0000 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -char *version = "4.18"; +char *version = "4.18 (FreeBSD)"; char *host_name = "alpha-unknown-freebsd"; char *target_name = "alpha-unknown-freebsd"; Index: i386/version.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/i386/version.c,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -d -r1.4 version.c --- i386/version.c 2 May 1999 11:32:14 -0000 1.4 +++ i386/version.c 30 Jan 2002 13:35:43 -0000 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -char *version = "4.18"; +char *version = "4.18 (FreeBSD)"; char *host_name = "i386-unknown-freebsd"; char *target_name = "i386-unknown-freebsd"; State Changed From-To: open->closed Change applied to both -current and -stable (for release with 4.6). Thanks. |
