Package: gdb Version: 7.2-1ubuntu3 Severity: normal This bug is still present.
The patches from Jan Kratochvil that were referred to are at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185337 The most important patch seems to have been applied, but there’s a useful diagnostic patch that seems not to have been applied upstream, which gives advice on this very common case, namely trying unsuccessfully to print the value of errno: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=134903&action=diff Since this patch appears not to have been applied upstream, can we please at least have it in Debian? It would have instantly told me all I needed to know... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdb depends on: ii libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu10.1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7ubuntu1 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libncurses5 5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpython2.6 2.6.6-5ubuntu1 Shared Python runtime library (ver ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu1 compression library - runtime gdb recommends no packages. Versions of packages gdb suggests: ii gdb-doc 7.2-1 The GNU Debugger Documentation pn gdbserver <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
