KDevelop4 and gdb version

[Vladimir Prus]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:57, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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?

On stock linux system, building x86 gdb is "./configure && make". I think
expat is the only remotely non-standard dependency, and it's available 
everywhere.

- Volodya