[Website feedback] KDevelop 5.1.0 AppImage has no Run - "Attach to Process" option

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:28:13 CEST KDevelop wrote:
>> Paul Huffman (not verified) (paul.huffman at lzlabs.com) sent a message using
>> the contact form at https://www.kdevelop.org/contact.
>>
>> Message
>>                  Hello.  I've been using the KDevelop AppImage IDE since
>> v5.1.0
>> and I've never seen the "Attach to Process" option available under the Run
>> menu option like the documentation describes.  I see numerous bug reports on
>> this topic (for certain Linux distributions).
>
> Yep, indeed valid.
>
> We don't package KF5SysGuard in our AppImage.
>
> Tracked here now, will try to fix in the next AppImage release:
>   https://phabricator.kde.org/T5878
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>> I keep hoping a new version of KDev will fix this.  However, I ju *
> KF5SysGuard
>> the 5.1.0 AppImage and it is still not there (for me).
>> Is it possible that there is something missing or down-level in my
>> environment which KDev requires in order to make this option available?
>> Or does an AppImage have everything it needs built-in in order to attach to
>> a process?   I would have thought this was something provided by GDB that
>> KDev "just uses".
>> My GDB is: gdb.x86_64.-7.9.1-19.lz.el7
>> My OS is:
>> cat /etc/redhat-release
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
>> uname -a
>> Linux mymachine 3.10.0-514.6.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 19:21:31 EST
>> 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> I desperately need this feature working so I don't have to switch to a new
>> IDE just to obtain this basic debugger feature.
>> Thank you
>
>
> --
> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org

FWIW this could be reconsidered, there was recently a patch to vastly
reduce dependencies on libksysguard (i.e. no plasma).

Aleix