the user id of the builder, and the build machine hostname, and is
viewable by the "crash --buildinfo" command line option or by the
"help -B" option during runtime. This patch replaces that string
data with "reproducible build" if the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment
variable contains a value string when the crash binary is compiled.
(bwiedemann@suse.de)
a user whose username cannot be determined from the user ID number,
the build fails immediately with a segmentation fault.
(sargun@sargun.me, anderson@redhat.com)
on the host build machine. Without the patch, the build fails with
the error message "amd64-linux-nat.c:496:1: error: conflicting types
for 'ps_get_thread_area'".
(anderson@redhat.com)
version supports running against a live kernel. Compressed kdump
support is also here, but the crash dump support for the kernel,
kexec-tools, and makedumpfile is still pending. Initial work was
done by Karl Volz with help from Bob Picco.
(dave.kleikamp@oracle.com)
crash binaries may be built with big-endian support; running the
"make target=MIPS" build option on an x86 or x86_64 host creates
x86 binaries with little-endian support only.
(rabin@rab.in)
initial support is restricted to 32-bit MIPS kernels that are
configured as little-endian. With respect to dumpfile types, only
ELF vmcores are recognized. In addition to building crash as a
32-bit MIPS binary, it is also possible to build crash as an x86
binary on an x86 or x86_64 host so that crash analysis of MIPS
dumpfiles can be performed on an x86 or x86_64 host. The x86 binary
can be built by entering "make target=MIPS" for the initial build;
subsequent builds with MIPS support can be accomplished by entering
"make" alone.
(rabin@rab.in)
for analyzing little-endian PPC64 dumpfiles on an x86_64 host, which
can be done by entering "make target=PPC64". After the initial build
is complete, subsequent builds can be done by entering "make" alone.
(anderson@redhat.com)
Since this required a large number of patches to be applied to
architecture-neutral files in the gdb-7.6 tree, the changes are
only applied if the host build system is a ppc64le.
(ptesarik@suse.cz, normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
