Bug 122942

Summary:	gdb package does not require libunwind
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Bill Peck <bpeck>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Elena Zannoni <ezannoni>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	cagney, jjohnstn, srevivo
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Description Bill Peck 2004-05-10 17:01:31 UTC

Description of problem:
On the ia64 arch libunwind is required for gdb to work correctly

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdb-6.0post-0.20040223.17

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e libunwind if its installed
2. rpm -ivh gdb
3. gdb will install even though it requires libunwind
  
Actual results:
gdb does not require libunwind

Expected results:
libunwind should be a requirement, and the correct version of
libunwind as well.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Elena Zannoni 2004-07-27 02:06:18 UTC

This is now fixed with the current version of gdb.
since gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.13

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-12-21 19:37:06 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-561.html