KDevelop4 and gdb version

[Mathieu Chouinard]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:52, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:05:57PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ok, that's easy enough. I am not against this requirement personally,
> but I want to see what others have to say.
>
> Do you know of anything special that is needed to build cvs versions of
> gdb on Mac OS X? Several of us have shiny new macs to use on KDE 4. :)
> --
> Matt
good for me.
Mathieu
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