Re: svn commit: r52604 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes

On 12/5/18 12:18 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> Author: gjb
> Date: Wed Dec  5 20:18:20 2018
> New Revision: 52604
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52604
> 
> Log:
>   Document r317416, gdb(1) installed to /usr/libexec, and gdbtui
>   and gdbserver are no longer installed.
>   
>   Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
> 
> Modified:
>   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes/relnotes.xml
> 
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes/relnotes.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes/relnotes.xml	Wed Dec  5 20:18:19 2018	(r52603)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes/relnotes.xml	Wed Dec  5 20:18:20 2018	(r52604)
> @@ -229,6 +229,15 @@
>  	updated to support <literal>if</literal> and
>  	<literal>else</literal> statements.</para>
>  
> +      <para revision="317416">The &man.gdb.1; utility is now installed
> +	to <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename>, and
> +	a new &man.src.conf.5; knob,
> +	<literal>WITHOUT_GDB_LIBEXEC</literal> has been added to
> +	disable building &man.gdb.1;.  The
> +	<application>gdbserver</application> and
> +	<application>gdbtui</application> utilities are no longer
> +	installed.</para>

In particular, I think we want to say that users should install GDB from ports
on all architectures other than sparc64.  (GDB is still installed in /usr/bin
for sparc64).

Maybe something like:

"The legacy version of GDB included with the base system is now installed
 to /usr/libexec for use by crashinfo(8).  For interactive debugging, users
 should either use lldb(8) or install a modern version of GDB from the
 devel/gdb package."

-- 
John Baldwin

                                                                            
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