On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using DDD-3.3.8 from pkgsrc on 2.0_RC1.
>
> This DDD does _NOT_ work properly, no "display" command works, breakpoints do 
> not appear before another command e.g. "continue" is given and the whole 
> thing seems a little slow.
>
> I can live with a slow DDD, but a debugger where you cannot watch variables 
> is useless!
>
> Can anybody confirm this behaviour or knows what's wrong?
>
> Btw, the machine uses SSH display forwarding, but that shouldn't be a problem 
> here.
>
> Thanks for comments!
> -Florian
>

Hi again,

I just received an off-list reply with a workaround:

>maybe that is a problem with the internal libedit used by NetBSD when
>building gdb.

A change in the Makefile of gdb and DDD works (not using this lib 
anymore).

Hm, is it a known issue that the libedit does not work (in that case)?

-Florian