Re: Fixes for Mac OS X/x86 building/running

[Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be>]

On 12 Mar 2009, at 19:40, Joel Brobecker wrote:

>> Less cursory testing shows that it doesn't work fine. The problem is
>> that[...]
>
> I recommend that you discuss this issue on gdb@ rather than the Archer
> list, because the port originates from GDB, not Archer:

I checked my GDB cvs checkout and could not find any trace of gdb/ 
machoread.c nor of gdb/darwin-nat.c. That's why I thought it was  
Archer-specific. But now I do see that it's mentioned in the Changelog  
file. Apparently, because I started my cvs checkout from a tbz source  
snapshot, I had some kind of sticky tag. I've now done a "cvs up -A",  
and now I have the file. Sorry for the trouble.

> I think you have
> more chances of reaching some developers that know a little more about
> MacOS. The author of the MacOS port is Tristan Gingold, and I'm not  
> sure
> he's either on gdb@ or archer@, so I'd recommend CC'ing him in your
> report (gingold /AT/ adacore.com).

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

> The reviewer was Stan Shebs, who used
> to work at Apple...

Yes, I remember him. He used to their main GCC guy, if I remember  
correctly (or at least the most vocal one :)

> PS: I'll take a look at your first patch in a moment, and I expect to
> be able to approve it for inclusion in the FSF tree.

Thanks!


Jonas