[Qt-creator] ubuntu 9.10 amd64, debugging helpers do not build

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Grego wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had to add
> 
> #include <stdint.h>
> to gdbmacros.cpp for the debugging helpers to build.  Otherwise it
> would complain:
> gdbmacros.cpp:636: error: expected type-specifier before ‘uintptr_t’

Should work now (after several changes last week ;-})
 
> After that it worked sometimes, gdb would crash most of the time, but
> not always.  Browsing this list I see I should downgrade the gdb to
> 6.8... seems like I need to build it myself, as it doesn't seem to be
> in ubuntu repository.

Today appeared a new entry on

 http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/pages/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

" If I have a choice of gdb versions, which should I use?

Up to and including Qt Creator 1.3.0 use 6.8 if possible.  In
particular, gdb 7.0 is known to have problems. If you are using Ubuntu
Karmic, which defaults to gdb 7.0, you may want to downgrade to 6.8
using the .deb from Ubuntu Jaunty, which can be downloaded here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/gdb and then following the link to
your architecture. You can install the .deb using the command sudo dpkg
-i gdb_6.8-3ubuntu2_[arch].deb."

Maybe that's useful for you.

Andre'