GDB: Qt5-based pretty-printers situation

[Nicolai Hähnle-Montoro]

Hey,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> I appreciate some new developers are working on streamlining the GDB plugin,
> it was much needed.
>
> We have one big issue in KF5 with GDB plugin: Qt5-based pretty printers.
>
> The problem: We don't ship them => We're not able to pretty-print Qt5-related
> variables in the GDB plugin
>
> There's an existing change-request at Qt Gerrit, which implements most of the
> pretty-printers for the types in QtCore *for Qt5 only*:
>   https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/87052/

I've seen this, but right now it's only at a rather low priority on my
list because I don't exactly fancy adding yet another fundamental
library to my list of custom-built things :/ (Parallel installation in
separate prefixes is possible and what I'm doing right now with stuff
like KTextEditor, but it tends to be fragile and annoying)

Cheers,
Nicolai
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