Re: gdb dropped from ia64

> On Dec 22, 2022, at 00:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Pedro!
> 
> On 12/22/22 08:29, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:
>> With the latest turn of the crank we just lost gdb. It was flagged as a broken packaged and removed.
>> The broken dependency is:
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  libdebuginfod1 : Depends: libdebuginfod-common (>= 0.188-2) but 0.188-1 is to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> gdb didn't drop ia64 support, you just ran into this problem:
> 

Sorry that’s is not what I meant. Drop here was regarding the Distro (it gets uninstalled when you do apt upgrade) due to the new missing dependency.

>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html
> 
> Adrian
> 

To make things a bit more complicated, gdbserver still installs but is not functional.

pmsjt@debian:~$ gdbserver :50012 /usr/bin/ls
Process /usr/bin/ls created; pid = 9960
Listening on port 50012
Remote debugging from host ::ffff:192.168.1.85, port 43748
/build/gdb-ynSPoI/gdb-10.1/gdbserver/tdesc.cc:195: A problem internal to GDBserver has been detected.
const char* tdesc_get_features_xml(const target_desc*): Assertion `tdesc->xmltarget != NULL || (!tdesc->features.empty () && tdesc->arch != NULL)' failed.