On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:44 PM Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> This message is just to inform the OI developers that I'm working on > gdb now. It will be a version upgrade from 7.10.1 to 8.0 and a python > upgrade from 2.7 to 3.7 . Gdb version 8.0 is the Oracle Solaris > freeware version, used in the current Solaris. I know that the > current gdb version is 10.2, but 8.0 comes with a set of patches that > are known to work with Solaris, and will likely work with OI. > > Note that the gdb presently included with OI has 63 patches. I'm not > about to review all of those. Version 8.0 has only eight patches. > All of them seem to work. > > All I have to do before creating a PR is to do a bit of testing with > the new gdb. The important thing is to remove the current dependancy > on python-2, so we can get rid of that version of python. I also > intend to try some more recent versions of gdb to see if they also > work with the Solaris patches. > This is a very good strategy, thank you for your work on this :) > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, > Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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