From 061765ced66642c0a98b9e4a76e18dc630ad3199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:22:19 -0700
Subject: Mark static gdb/gdbserver EXPERIMENTAL

... and default to 'n'.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>

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
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