Release Notes

Cygnus Support Developer's Kit

Progressive--95q4

• Cygnus Developer's Kit: Progressive--95q4
  • Checking the Cygnus bug database by mail
  • Confidential information in problem reports
• New in this release
  • Changes to supported platforms
  • HPUX support
  • What's new with G++
  • What's new with GDB
• Limitations and Warnings
  • Programs not available on some platforms
  • Some platforms now shipping on two tapes
  • expect generates bad results in an Emacs buffer
• Issues from previous releases
  • Don't use -traditional with ANSI header files
  • -gstabs gives better C++ COFF debugging
  • Options for CPU32 and CPU32+ targets
  • New GCC syntax for function attributes
  • Debugging remote connections
  • Accessing the `m68k-idp' targets
  • No `ar q...' on Unixware
  • The LANG variable on RS/6000
  • Requirements for MS-DOS
  • DEL does not work in MS-DOS Info
• Notes on rebuilding from source
  • Need to upgrade XLC to rebuild for RS/6000
  • Use `--with-gnu-as' when configuring MIPS
  • Rebuilding the tools under Solaris 2
  • Multiple object code formats
  • Rebuilding with the GUI debugger
• Problems fixed in this release
  • Binary File Descriptor Library (libbfd)
  • Binary Utilities
  • Problems rebuilding from source
  • Berkeley Yacc
  • GNU C++ Compiler (G++)
  • GNU Assembler (AS)
  • GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp)
  • GNU C Compiler (GCC)
  • GNU Debugger (GDB)
  • Problems installing the CDK
  • GNU Linker (LD)
  • Cygnus C Support Library (libc)
  • Cygnus C++ Support Library (libg++)
  • Cygnus C Support Libraries (libc and libm)
• Specifying Names for Hosts and Targets
  • Host names
  • Target names
  • config.guess
• Graphical User Interface for GDB
  • Getting Started
  • Menus
  • Windows
  • Rebuilding the GDB GUI