Bug#528855: Bug#706623: libgdb-dev: missing .a files

2013-07-31 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 01:54 +0100, peter green wrote: > Samuel Bronson wrote: > > Since libgdb.a has been dropped upstream, we've dropped libgdb-dev > > entirely now, and fp is going to need to come up with a different plan > > for debugger support. > > > Personally I tend to think we should jus

Bug#528855: Bug#706623: libgdb-dev: missing .a files

2013-07-30 Thread peter green
Samuel Bronson wrote: Since libgdb.a has been dropped upstream, we've dropped libgdb-dev entirely now, and fp is going to need to come up with a different plan for debugger support. Personally I tend to think we should just embed an appropriate version of the libgdb source in the fpc source p

Bug#528855: Bug#706623: libgdb-dev: missing .a files

2013-07-30 Thread Samuel Bronson
Since libgdb.a has been dropped upstream, we've dropped libgdb-dev entirely now, and fp is going to need to come up with a different plan for debugger support. (For what it's worth, I get the impression that IDEs linking against libgdb have tended not to support the version of gdb in the archive