[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-4.7 is available

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Wed Sep 26 13:35:30 UTC 2007


* Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> [2007-09-25 21:58]:
>
> - Incorporation of Luc Chouinard's SIAL interpreter (Simple Image
>   Access Language) as a crash extension module.  When loaded with
>   the "extend" command, the sial.so module provides three commands,
>   "load" to load a SIAL script, "unload" to unload it, and "edit",
>   which unloads the script, brings up an $EDITOR-based edit session
>   of the script, and then loads it again.  Also, when the sial.so
>   module is loaded, it will automatically load any SIAL scripts
>   found in the /usr/share/sial/crash or $HOME/.sial directories.
>   Therefore, by putting "extend <path-to>/sial.so" in either
>   ./.crashrc or $HOME/.crashrc, all desired SIAL scripts may be
>   loaded on a particular machine in a hands-off manner.  For details,
>   consult the README and README.sial files in the extensions/libsial
>   subdirectory.  (lucchouina at yahoo.com)

This extension does not build on IA64 although it should. Patch:

---
 extensions/sial.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/extensions/sial.c
+++ b/extensions/sial.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ _init() /* Register the command set. */
 #ifdef i386
 #define SIAL_ABI  ABI_INTEL_X86
 #else 
-#ifdef ia64
+#ifdef __ia64
 #define SIAL_ABI  ABI_INTEL_IA
 #else
 #ifdef __x86_64__




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