Move gdb from /usr/sfw/bin to /usr/bin [PSARC/2007/630 Self Review]

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Don Cragun wrote:

> I am submitting this case for April Chin.
> It seeks a minor release binding.
>
> I believe it qualifies for self review and am marking it closed
> approved.  If anyone disagrees, let me know and I will change it to a
> fast track with the normal one week timer.

What's the point in this exactly?

GDB is quite broken on Solaris at this time, afaict. It's incapable of 
reading our core dumps correctly (it either will fail to recognise the 
core, or when it does recognise one it'll tend to crash trying to parse 
it). Iirc, there are fairly old bugs open on this. It doesn't appear 
that either Sun or GNU have had any interest in fixing GDB on Solaris 
(did it break with S10 changes?).

What's the point in moving a broken debugger from one place to another? 
If any energy is to be expended on GDB other than on fixing it, it 
should be on *removing* it.

If I had a vote, and I were to ignore fact that PSARC doesn't decide on 
implementation, it'd be: Big huge -1 to this proposal..

regards,
-- 
Paul Jakma,
Solaris Networking                       Sun Microsystems, Scotland
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150