DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>
>> can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable?
>
> I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old
> pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate
> with gdb.
>
> I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if
> that directive is being honoured these days.
>
> It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures.
> Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty.

I used to like ddd also.  You might try devel/gps.  It's more
than just a debugger, but you can use it just for debugging.
Note, it's been a while since I've used it, but worked similarly
to ddd.

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DE