We've discussed that instead of having devel/gdb we should build devel/gdb-cheri as the gdb package. This would allow existing users move to the gdb package and allow new users unaware of gdb-cheri easily install GDB with the gdb package. However, it might confuse existing users already familiar with gdb-cheri. In their case, pkg64 install gdb-cheri would fail when setting up a Morello box with CheriBSD 23.11.
Instead, I'd like to propose to remove the devel/gdb port (as we discussed), leave devel/gdb-cheri as it was and introduce a separate meta-port devel/gdb-meta that wraps devel/gdb-cheri. This solution should allow new and existing users use GDB packages they're already familiar with.
This PR aims to:
We've discussed that instead of having devel/gdb we should build devel/gdb-cheri as the gdb package. This would allow existing users move to the gdb package and allow new users unaware of gdb-cheri easily install GDB with the gdb package. However, it might confuse existing users already familiar with gdb-cheri. In their case,
pkg64 install gdb-cheriwould fail when setting up a Morello box with CheriBSD 23.11.Instead, I'd like to propose to remove the devel/gdb port (as we discussed), leave devel/gdb-cheri as it was and introduce a separate meta-port devel/gdb-meta that wraps devel/gdb-cheri. This solution should allow new and existing users use GDB packages they're already familiar with.
https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/poudriere-infrastructure/commit/5e286a4a0c810f563a5e29575e7d6d4b2f5b0c90 was needed to cross-compile devel/gdb-cheri using a CheriBSD/aarch64 jail on FreeBSD.