KDev4 debug launch error message "Need gdb 6.8.50 or higher"

[Vladimir Prus]

On Friday 24 July 2009 Manoj Rajagopalan wrote:

> Hi all
> 
>   I created a new launch configuration in which I explicitly set the path to 
> the executable and the working directory.
> 
>   The execute launch works fine. The debug launch gives me a messagebox with 
> the error mentioned in the subject. My system has gdb v6.8-debian (I am using 
> KUbuntu 9.04). I built KDevelop 4 and kdevplatform from source after an svn 
> update minutes ago.

You should build GDB from CVS, see http://sourceware.org/gdb

>    Can someone help me with this? Also, when playing around with the debug 
> launch config, sometimes I get a message saying that GDB is unable to write 
> to devices tty* etc. and that I should check /dev/tty* to see if GDB has 
> write permissions to it.
> 
>    Are these two messages linked? If not could someone help me out the second 
> also?

Did you check /dev/tty* to see if GDB has write permissions to it?

- Volodya