Bug 202246 - Please stabilize =sys-devel/gdb-6.7.1
Bug#: 202246 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: toolchain@gentoo.org Reported By: armin76@gentoo.org
Component: Ebuilds
URL: 
Summary: Please stabilize =sys-devel/gdb-6.7.1
Keywords:  STABLEREQ
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-12-14 12:59 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-12-14 12:59 0000 
+30 days in the tree, no bugs, no regressions, please do.

vapier says it's okay. Expect test failures, not a regression, though.

------- Comment #1 From nixnut 2007-12-14 19:53:44 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #2 From Jeroen Roovers 2007-12-14 21:03:09 0000 ------- 
Stable for HPPA.

------- Comment #3 From Dawid Węgliński 2007-12-15 01:48:45 0000 ------- 
x86 stable

------- Comment #4 From Samuli Suominen 2007-12-16 11:24:27 0000 ------- 
amd64 stable

------- Comment #5 From Markus Rothe 2007-12-16 17:12:31 0000 ------- 
ppc64 stable

------- Comment #6 From SpanKY 2007-12-29 21:07:57 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 203715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #7 From Maciej Mrozowski 2008-01-12 04:43:40 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #4)
> amd64 stable
> 

No it it's not. I've been using gdb-6.7.1 on my stable gentoo amd64 as well as
on Debian lenny (gcc-4.2, gdb-6.7.1) and I noticed that gdb is crashing
randomly during debugging session under kdevelop (3.5.0). Problem is solved
when downgraded to 6.6 on gentoo or downgraded to 6.4 on Debian (from Etch
branch). There is also a note about it on http://kdevelop.org:

"2007-December-04 - Sixth binary snapshot of the stable KDevelop 3.5.x release
series
 Fixes  75 bugs from KDevelop 3.5.0 and previous versions. Again it requires
GDB >= 6.4 but a regression was found in GDB versions 6.7.0 and 6.7.1, avoid
them. It will be fixed in version 6.7.2"

I would advise to mask versions >=6.7 in portage and fallback to 6.6.

------- Comment #8 From SpanKY 2008-01-12 05:59:46 0000 ------- 
doubtful ... feel free to post links about the bugs and i can roll a 6.7.1-r2,
otherwise we'll just wait for 6.7.2

------- Comment #9 From Maciej Mrozowski 2008-01-13 03:26:04 0000 ------- 
It looks something related to:
http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443080

thought it's about version 6.6 (version 6.4.90 is currently marked as stable in
Debian) and it may not be the case here

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-12/msg00107.html
looks like my issue, because it affects communication with graphic frontends (I
observed my problem on both amd64 machines: my Gentoo with gcc-4.1,gdb-6.7.x
and Debian testing with gcc-4.2,gdb-6.7.x - in both cases using kdevelop-3.5.0)

I'll upgrade to 6.7.1 and try to provide some scenario to reproduce