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Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> OK, when my users say, "hey, why doesn't cgdb work on mac os x anymore?",
> I'll tell them either, "add support to cgdb yourself" or
> "no, really, it's a good thing that apple ported gdb to Mac OS X and
> cgdb doesn't work".
>
> This is literally the position I'm in. How do you suggest I reason about
> the possibilities I have? Do you have a better possibility for me?
Would you rather they hadn't ported any GDB to Mac OS X at all? Tell
your users that Apple's port does not include what cgdb needs. It's
no different from someone complaining that it doesn't work on any
platform with no GDB port at all.
Or make cgdb cope with the variations. That's up to you.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery