Fedora 18 Update: gdb-7.5.1-42.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-16214
2013-09-09 22:39:25
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 7.5.1
Release     : 42.fc18
URL         : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran, Go 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:

Fix the version string to be GNU standards compliant.

New %pre to fix failed upgrade of the previous build.

Fix /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/ need of filesystem symlinks.
It needs:
yum remove gdb-heap; yum reinstall gdb; yum install gdb-heap

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep  9 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-42.fc18
- Fix the version string to be GNU standards compliant (BZ 1004949).
* Fri Aug 30 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-41.fc18
- New %pre to fix failed upgrade of the previous commit (BZ 999645).
- Fix false warnings of new %pre during future upgrades (BZ 999645).
* Wed Aug 28 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-40.fc18
- Fix /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/ need of filesystem symlinks (BZ 999645).
  It needs: yum remove gdb-heap; yum reinstall gdb; yum install gdb-heap
* Sat Apr 27 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-39.fc18
- Fix false "Unknown error 512" on x32 (H.J. Lu, BZ 956883).
* Fri Apr 12 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-38.fc18
- Fix crash on 'gdb ""' (BZ 951251)..
* Thu Mar 21 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-37.fc18
- Fix crash regression from the dlopen of libpthread.so fix (BZ 911712).
* Fri Feb  8 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-36.fc18
- Re-enable PDF in gdb-doc after texinfo RH BZ 876710 has been fixed.
* Sun Jan 13 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-35.fc18
- [testsuite] Fix gdb-orphanripper.c lockup on F-17 (/dev/pts/* glibc chown).
* Tue Jan  8 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-34.fc18
- Update dlopen to support map_failed probe of glibc (Gary Benson, BZ 886516).
* Thu Jan  3 2013 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-33.fc18
- [ppc*] Fix PowerPC disassembly regression (Alan Modra, Edjunior Machado).
* Thu Dec 13 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-32.fc18
- 'dwz -m' parsing fix (Tom Tromey).
* Mon Dec  3 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-31.fc18
- Fix DW_OP_GNU_implicit_pointer offset bug (Tom Tromey).
* Sun Dec  2 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-30.fc18
- Temporarily disable PDF in gdb-doc before texinfo RH BZ 876710 gets fixed.
* Thu Nov 29 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-29.fc18
- Provide Source URL when it is a release.
* Thu Nov 29 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-28.fc18
- Fix (unsplit) split info doc.
* Thu Nov 29 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.1-27.fc18
- Rebase to FSF GDB 7.5.1 (7.5 stable branch).
* Fri Nov  9 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.5.0.20120926-26.fc18
- Fix `GDB cannot access struct member whose offset is larger than 256MB'
  (RH BZ 871066).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1004949 - invalid gdb header
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004949
  [ 2 ] Bug #999645 - /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/ needs filesystem symlinks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999645
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