Update to GDB 11.2?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:53 PM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 24/02/2022 14:53, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 24/02/2022 14:40, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:50 AM Sebastian Huber
> >> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
> >> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hello,
> >>
> >>     we still use GDB 10 for the RTEMS 6 tool suite. I noticed some build
> >>     problems for this version. Should we update to the latest GDB 11.2
> >>     release?
> >>
> >>
> >> If it solves build problems and doesn't introduce others, sure. I tend
> >> to want to bump to the latest  versions.
> >
> > Ok, I started a build on Linux using GDB 11.2. If this works, I will
> > update the RSB.
>
> It didn't help to fix the build issues on macOS. Now all GDB builds seem
> to fail with:
>
> checking whether to use MPFR... auto
> checking for libmpfr... no
> configure: WARNING: MPFR is missing or unusable; some features may be
> unavailable.
> checking whether to use python... /usr/bin/python2
> checking for python... no
> configure: error: no usable python found at /usr/bin/python2
>

Is this a lack of Python2 or Python2 development libraries?

The message used to confuse the two.

Either way, the requirement for Python 2 at this point  isn't great.

--joel

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