Bug 173731

Summary:	missing debugging support for ppc64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	aoliva, dgregor, ezannoni, jjohnstn, katzj, nobody+pnasrat, roland, rvokal, wtogami
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Description David Woodhouse 2005-11-19 20:50:36 UTC

The gdb.ppc64 and strace64.ppc64 packages are missing from the compose.

Including strace64.ppc64 is relatively simple, but for gdb I think we want some
installer support -- we should install only one of the 32-bit or 64-packages
according to the hardware, a bit like we do for the kernel.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-21 17:17:45 UTC

One gdb/strace should support both ABIs.

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2006-01-06 22:49:41 UTC

Any progress on this? We still don't have strace or gdb working for 64-bit
binaries on a clean install. Can we add it to FC5Blocker?

Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2006-01-06 22:58:27 UTC

The 64-bit gdb build should support both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, so just
choosing gdb-*.ppc64.rpm in the install should dtrt.

strace is not going to support biarch on ppc until it gets a total rewrite.
It barely supports biarch on x86-64 and one or two others, and that support is
kludgey at best.  strace64 is a necessary evil for the time being (unless Bill
wants to maintain upstream strace).

Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2006-02-20 10:31:28 UTC

Did this get fixed for FC5t3?

Comment 7 David Woodhouse 2006-03-03 20:53:53 UTC

Hm. We now have a 64-bit gdb. Unfortunately, it's no longer capable of debugging
32-bit binaries. This would seem to be quite a recent development -- it always
_used_ to work.

bug #183931

Comment 8 Warren Togami 2006-03-08 17:02:50 UTC

Moving to FC5Update and FC6Blocker because this isn't related to install or
initial boot and we have no remaining time for FC5.

Comment 9 David Woodhouse 2006-03-08 17:16:37 UTC

Might as well mark this bug closed now. We can debug 64-bit userspace now... we
just can't debug 32-bit userspace any more :)

But that's bug #183931