Hi, I’m having problems with linaro-gdb. I’m using debian wheezy on my BBB (build with the script from RobertCNelson)
and have installed Qt on it. QT applications are working on my BBB.
But when I try to debug my local debugger of qtcreator fails with an error message:
“The selected build of GDB does not support Python scripting.It cannot be used in Qt Creator.”
I found out that this is a HOST problem. The gdb of the linaro toolchain (gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux) which I was using to compile everything
seems to be compiled without python support.
So I downloaded from https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+download
the latest release of the source files.
I untared the file and cd-ed to ~/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux/gdb/gdbserver.
From this directory I tried to configure using this command:
./configure --host=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-python=/usr/bin/python | tee configurelog.txt
but there is an WARNING message displayed that --with-python is unrecognized
~/gdb-linaro-7.6-2013.05/gdb/gdbserver$ ./configure --host=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-python=/usrin/python | tee configurelog.txt
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-python
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don’t use --host.
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=== configuring in build-gnulib-gdbserver (/home/wehnerc/gdb-linaro-7.6-2013.05/gdb/gdbserver/build-gnulib-gdbserver)
configure: running /bin/bash …/./…/gnulib/configure --disable-option-checking ‘–prefix=NONE’ ‘–host=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu’ ‘–target=arm-linux-gnueabihf’ ‘–with-python=/usr/bin/python’ ‘host_alias=i686-build_pc-linux-gnu’ ‘target_alias=arm-linux-gnueabihf’ --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=…/./…/gnulib
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configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-python
Not sure how applicable this is… I do see that python-dev is installed in this tutorial, not sure what the exact package would be in Ubuntu. Running ./configure --help is typically helpful to me. Getting the “unrecognized options:” error would imply to me that the option has changed or is being pass incorrectly to configure. Mike
Are you sure that you need gdb-server with python? It seems that python support in host gdb itself is enough for remote debugging in Qt Creator. I’ve recently had such a problem and building gdb with python support on host solved it.