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

Glen Barber <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:59:52 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 12:42:41PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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."
> 

Reworded with a few tweaks in r52607.  Thanks.

Glen

signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 833 B)