RHBA-2016:2737 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

New devtoolset-6-gdb packages are now available as a part of Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

The GNU Debugger (GDB) allows users to debug programs written in various programming languages including C, C++, and Fortran. The devtoolset-6-gdb packages provide the Red Hat Developer Toolset version of GDB.

This enhancement update adds the devtoolset-6-gdb packages to Red Hat Developer Toolset. (BZ#1358356)

For detailed changes, see the Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.0 User Guide linked from the References section.

All users who require devtoolset-6-gdb are advised to install these new packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.2 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.2 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1256513 - Support libipt for Broadwell+ Intel(R) Processor Trace
• BZ - 1324606 - DTS-4.0 regression: gdb remote.c due to "setfs" with RHEL gdbserver
• BZ - 1375553 - Regression: gdb --pid $(pidof qemu-system-x86_64) stopped working with gdb 7.11.1
• BZ - 1378147 - gdb crashes on some inferior function call scripts
• BZ - 1383086 - Fix printing of TLS (such as 'errno') regression

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)