Fedora 8 Update: gdb-6.6-45.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2497
2008-03-16 17:20:18
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 6.6
Release     : 45.fc8
URL         : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages
Description :
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data.

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Update Information:

The annoying build-id warnings integrated more with rpm and the lists of the
warnings got replaced usually by a single-line of a `debuginfo-install' command
advice.    Backport of fixes to make `set follow-fork-mode child' working.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 13 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-45
- Backport of follow-fork-mode child fixes (BZ 435819).
* Mon Mar 10 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-44
- build-id warnings integrated more with rpm and the lists of the warnings got
  replaced usually by a single-line `debuginfo-install' advice (BZ 435581).
  - FIXME: Testsuite needs an update for the new pre-prompt messages.
* Thu Feb 21 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-43
- Rename `set debug build-id' as `set build-id-verbose', former level 1 moved
  to level 2, default value is now 1, use `set build-id-verbose 0' now to
  disable the missing separate debug filenames messages (BZ 432164).
* Thu Jan 24 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-42
- build-id debug messages print now the library names unconditionally.
* Thu Jan 24 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-41
- Improve the text UI messages for the build-id debug files locating.
  - Require now the rpm libraries.
* Thu Jan 10 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-40
- Fix+test (backport) threading of statically linked inferiors (BZ 314131).
  - It requires recent glibc to work in this case properly.
* Thu Dec 27 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-39
- Fix (backport) PPC biarch (ppc64->ppc) addresses above 2GB (BZ 426613).
- Fix the vendora testcase `attach-32.exp' affecting the other tests results.
* Sat Dec 22 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-38
- Fix crash on parsing duplicite file entries debug info (BZ 426395).
- Fix (#2) readline history for input mode commands like `command' (BZ 215816).
- Fix documentation on hardware watchpoints wrt multiple threads.
- Rename the patch file for BZ 235197 from its former name BZ 234468.
* Mon Dec 10 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-37
- Testsuite fixes for more stable/comparable results.
* Thu Nov  8 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-36
- Fix `errno' resolving on glibc with broken DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name.
- Imported 6.7 PPC hiding of call-volatile parameter registers.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #435819 - gdb crash w/ unknown ptrace event 5
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435819
  [ 2 ] Bug #435581 - weird messages when running a program
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435581
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