KDevelop4 and gdb version

[Matt Rogers]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:42:52PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Sometime soon, I plan to start working on debugger support in KDevelop4. 
> 
> I plan to require, until the first public KDevelop 4 release, that CVS version of gdb
> is used. The reason is that making KDevelop have alternative code paths
> for each feature that gdb adds in CVS is going to be major pain.
> 
> I indend to add "feature list" feature to gdb, so that KDevelop can check for 
> features it needs and reliably inform the user that his gdb version is too old.
> At the same time, I'll use all new features I can, and running KDevelop4 with
> last released version of gdb is likely to be either very inconvenient or 
> downright impossible.
> 
> I hope that the time till the next gdb release (~ 4 month) and the time till
> KDevelop 4 release is sufficient to add everything I need. If anybody has some
> concerns or suggestions about this, speak out!
> 
> - Volodya
> 

How easy is it to build gdb from cvs?
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Matt