Op Thu, 4 Jan 2007, schreef Jan Jelowicki:
> Hi to all,
>
> The freepascal IDE included in standard 2.0.4 RPM has no debugger
> support.
That is bad... But it will enable you to run the IDE indeed, because
without GDB, the IDE does not use libc.
> There are also *.tgz binaries in FreePascal repositories,
> and they contain GDB-enabled fp executable. Unfortunately, one of
> the machines I would like do use for debugging is too old for that
> binaries -- it is RedHat 9 with glibc 2.3.2, while precompiled fp
> requires at least 2.3.4.
>
> Trying to make FreePascal IDE from 2.0.4 sources I got a message
> from the linker:
> "LibGDB was not found, IDE has no Debugger support".
> I have no libgdb.a in my system, and I am afraid that no conforming
> package provides it.
>
> glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.2.legacy
> gdb-5.3post-0.20021129.18
>
> Yes, I know they are very old but now I cannot upgrade this machine,
> it has to work stable with all its software.
>
> How should I obtain or generate libgdb.a in order to make fp IDE with gdb
> support?
It is available on ftp.freepascal.org, but, since the dependency on glibc
is caused by libgdb, this won't help you.
You need to compile gdb yourself, after compilation there will be a
libgdb.a in the gdb source directory. You will also need libiberty.a and
libbfd.a there, which should *not* be on your system already, if they are,
rename them so the compiler cannot find the ones already on your system.
Daniël
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