Update to GDB 11.2?

[Anders Montonen]

Hi,

> On 25 Feb 2022, at 7:53, 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

You may be running into this long-standing issue with Apple’s Python 2 framework builds: https://bugs.python.org/issue3588
See also this thread: https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/users/2020-November/067962.html

-a