5.0 known issues 2000-02-16

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

General:

ISO-C:  GDB has again accumulated some GCCisms.  These need to be
purged.

Configury:  The configury, right now, isn't very robust. This needs to
be made at least useable.

config.guess: I'm finally ready to import an updated config.guess.

new mi interface: Still to be imported.  Will want configury fixes
before it is enabled by default.


Target Specific:


GNU/Linux/*/glibc(beta):
There is a known problem with some beta's of the GLIBC library that
stops GDB from compiling.  It affects both native and cross targets. 
Check mail lists for patch.


GNU/Linux/i386/Debian/Potato:
Build problems. Suspect that one problem is fixed by ``[PATCH]
Linux/i386 testresults & gdb_proc_service.h patch'' and the other
problem is from the beta glibc (ulgh).


GNU/Linux/i386:
After gdb_proc_service.h patch, its results are:
# of expected passes            6363
# of unexpected failures        12
# of expected failures          200
but it didn't run the threads tests.  I believe the solib.c problem is
still dangling.  Actually, a testcase for what ever it is is needed
first.


GNU/Linux/PPC:
KevinB is going to work on it this week.


Hurd/x86(?):
Mark Kettenis indicated that the hurd is ``ok''.


HP/UX: Unfortunately this was knocked about pretty badly by the move to
an external repository (sorry). Jimmy's looking at it along with Jason
and (possibly) Jeff (shared lib problem).  I'm also going to try get
access to a HPUX box and give it a whirl.


AIX 4.?? (CC=gcc):
Kevin's been working on this.  Many patches applied.


AIX 4.?? (CC=xlc):
GDB contains non strict ISO-C.  This needs to be fixed before 5.0.  The
most common problem is:
	void foo (enum e x);
	foo (x) enum e; {...};
prior to 5.0 that was fixed using an int.  It can now be correctly fixed
by changing both the decl and defn to strict ISO-C.  I've seen a BFD
patch for AIX/xlc float past.


Alpha ??.?? (CC=DEC): Again known problems with ISO-C.  Suggest waiting
for the AIX ones to be fixed first.  The alpha native compiler is even
more pedantic.


Solaris: No feed back, I'll put it on my list of things to do.


Cygwin: Like HPUX, this has suffered badly from the binutils update.  My
understanding is that at present it doesn't build :-(.


FreeBSD: Build fails in (funny enough :-) solib.c.


SH Target:  Build problem hopefully fixed.  NickC forgot to post the
change...


wince: merge still pending.  Not a must have :-)


		Andrew