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| author |   Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net> | 2017-03-15 08:22:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net> | 2017-03-16 06:57:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 061765ced66642c0a98b9e4a76e18dc630ad3199 (patch) | |
| tree | 0753e62a7f85c4dd576cfcb0c3c46f71fd952d20 /config | |
| parent | 75d968ad54244c9f4a4cf33eb5111933e3fa25e7 (diff) | |
Mark static gdb/gdbserver EXPERIMENTAL
... and default to 'n'.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'config')
| -rw-r--r-- | config/debug/gdb.in.gdbserver | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | config/debug/gdb.in.native | 17 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/config/debug/gdb.in.gdbserver b/config/debug/gdb.in.gdbserver index 2f5576b..07e6e13 100644 --- a/config/debug/gdb.in.gdbserver +++ b/config/debug/gdb.in.gdbserver @@ -15,15 +15,30 @@ config GDB_GDBSERVER_HAS_IPA_LIB depends on GDB_7_2_or_later default y +# gdbserver is then linked with "-static -Wl,--dynamic-list=..." which config GDB_GDBSERVER_STATIC bool prompt "Build a static gdbserver" - depends on CONFIGURE_has_static_link - default y + depends on EXPERIMENTAL help In case you have trouble with dynamic loading of shared libraries, you will find that a static gdbserver comes in handy. + However, it has been noticed at least on x86 that enabling this + option produces an invalid gdbserver binary. It is linked with + "-static -Wl,--dynamic-list=..." which + # (a) requests invalid program interpreter + # (b) crashes glibc/uClibc-ng and does not work with musl + # See https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-03/msg00267.html + + It is possible it would work with other architectures, hence it is + not completely removed. Use with care and report to the mailing list + if the resulting gdbserver works. + + For further details, see: + https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19617 + https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21086 + config GDB_GDBSERVER_BUILD_IPA_LIB bool prompt "Build the IPA library" diff --git a/config/debug/gdb.in.native b/config/debug/gdb.in.native index 915debd..8684c05 100644 --- a/config/debug/gdb.in.native +++ b/config/debug/gdb.in.native @@ -15,9 +15,24 @@ if GDB_NATIVE config GDB_NATIVE_STATIC bool prompt "Build a static native gdb" - depends on CONFIGURE_has_static_link + depends on EXPERIMENTAL help In case you have trouble with dynamic loading of shared libraries, you will find that a static gdb comes in handy. + However, it has been noticed at least on x86 that enabling this + option produces an invalid gdb binary. It is linked with + "-static -Wl,--dynamic-list=..." which + # (a) requests invalid program interpreter + # (b) crashes glibc/uClibc-ng and does not work with musl + # See https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-03/msg00267.html + + It is possible it would work with other architectures, hence it is + not completely removed. Use with care and report to the mailing list + if the resulting gdbserver works. + + For further details, see: + https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19617 + https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21086 + endif # GDB_NATIVE |