Re: [PATCH] Remove support for "rtld_" prefix on solib-svr4 probes

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>]

On Thursday, September 25 2014, Pedro Alves wrote:

> I don't either.  But I'd rather a user stuck on such a OS be able to
> use a free debugger, than drive him towards a proprietary debugger.
> That's part of how I got involved into GDB in the first place.  I was
> forced to used Windows at work.  I worked around that by using Cygwin,
> to be able to use the free tools I preferred.  At the same time
> I needed to build a tool that would run on Windows CE.  So I worked on
> the GNU toolchain in order to target that OS.  Then I wanted to make Cygwin
> GDB better too, because it was similar to CE, and I was using it
> at work too.  And then somehow I ended up working on GDB full
> time.  :-P  It's a trap, I tells ya!

Haha, thanks for sharing your experience :-).

> The real point was that the user building GDB may have no control
> over the system bits of the distro it is building GDB for (in this
> case glibc's loader), just like when building for a proprietary OS,
> even though GNU/Linux distros are based (mostly) on free sources.

Yeah, that is a fair point, and it is very valid when we talk about
things that might make GDB break badly when removed.  But in this case,
we are talking about a very specific Fedora/RHEL thing, which is itself
intended to improve something (i.e., GDB will still work without it on
old Fedora/RHEL systems), so I think most of the concerns don't apply
here.

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