Wow this is nice to hear. I hope Mandrake adds these patches asap. I was
hoping gdb 5.0 would support threads natively, but I guess not.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Matt Benjamin wrote:
>
> Cooker folks,
>
> I just joined this list. Forgive me if this issue has already been raised
> and addressed!
>
> I debug multithreaded servers on Linux, and there are not-so-well-known
> patches needed to both GDB 4.18 and Glibc 2.1.3 which are required in
> order for GDB to be effectively "thread-aware".
>
> Mandrake 7.1 does not have these patches, it seems!
>
> After some fooling around, I discovered that (conveniently) the Redhat 6.2
> Glibc and GDB packages have full thread support, and they install cleanly
> as RPM upgrades for Mandrake 7.1.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Matt
>
