Debian Bug report logs - #425838
gdb version in testing does not work with binutils in testing

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gdb refuses all c binaries on amd64 platform

Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:38:18 +0200

Package: gdb
Version: 6.4.90.dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


On the AMD64 release of Debian-testing (running on an Intel E6600
platform), gdb refuses all binaries:

folkert@belle:~/Personal/src/multitail/devel$ cat test.c
int main(int arg, char *argv[])
{
        return 0;
}
folkert@belle:~/Personal/src/multitail/devel$ gcc test.c
folkert@belle:~/Personal/src/multitail/devel$ ./a.out
folkert@belle:~/Personal/src/multitail/devel$ gdb ./a.out
GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...BFD: /home/folkert/Personal/src/multitail/devel/a.out: don't know how to handle OS specific section `.gnu.hash' [0x6ffffff6]
"/home/folkert/Personal/src/multitail/devel/a.out": not in executable format: File format not recognized

(gdb)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-5      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-2      GNU readline and history libraries

gdb recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 425838@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>

To: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>, 425838@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#425838: gdb refuses all c binaries on amd64 platform

Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:52:29 -0400

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Package: gdb
> Version: 6.4.90.dfsg-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> On the AMD64 release of Debian-testing (running on an Intel E6600
> platform), gdb refuses all binaries:

Binutils added an incompatible format change.  That version of
binutils made it to testing before the GDB update; try grabbing GDB
from unstable.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Message #17 received at 425838@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>

To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>

Cc: 425838@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#425838: gdb refuses all c binaries on amd64 platform

Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:09:58 +0200

> > Package: gdb
> > Version: 6.4.90.dfsg-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > On the AMD64 release of Debian-testing (running on an Intel E6600
> > platform), gdb refuses all binaries:
> Binutils added an incompatible format change.  That version of
> binutils made it to testing before the GDB update; try grabbing GDB
> from unstable.

That solved it.
Thanks!


Folkert van Heusden

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Message #30 received at 425838@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.de>

To: 425838@bugs.debian.org

Subject: The updated gdb is not in Lenny

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:53:59 +0200

My system is a Lenny one and there the new package is not there. So I
had to go to the sid/unstable to get the updated gdb. 

Regards
Friedrich

Message #35 received at 425838@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>

To: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.de>, 425838@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#425838: The updated gdb is not in Lenny

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:24:07 +0200

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On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:53:59AM +0000, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> My system is a Lenny one and there the new package is not there. So I
> had to go to the sid/unstable to get the updated gdb. 

  that's life, still at least 3 days to go:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gdb.html
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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