[Interest] QtCreator, Mac OSX and LLDB?

André Pönitz andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Jan 22 22:25:26 CET 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:50:30PM +0000, danny wrote:
> I assumed it was common knowledge - you WILL hit this problem if you
> try to trace into a non-trivial Qt application on Mac. It was
> discussed previously on the mailing list and the Qt Creator manual
> alludes to this in two places:
> 
> "Since Python enabled versions of GDB are bundled with all recent
> Linux versions, active support for non-Python builds has been dropped
> for platforms other than Mac OS X."

Can this be read as anything else than "Mac does not require a
python-enabled GDB and continues to be supported with it's non-python
enabled build"?

> It even goes so far as to describing how to install a later version of
> GDB from source:
> 
> "FSF GDB can also be compiled for Mac OS, but the build is currently
> unstable, and thererefore, this is not recommended."

It mentions the possibility to use a python-enabled GDB on Mac,
and the consequences.

What version of GDB are you actually using?

Andre'



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