On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:07:15PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:18:22AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > gdb refuses to print errno on amd64, regardless of whether the program
> > in question is 32-bit or 64-bit.  libc6-dbg is installed.
> 
> Does linking with -lpthread help?  It will, if I remember the problem
> correctly.

Yes.  errno becomes accessible.

> This may be fixed upstream; I think Jan K. posted a patch for it at
> some point.

If it's not, a simple entry in README.Debian might be appropriate until
it's fixed.

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