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Bug 503852 - >=sys-devel/gdb-7.6: add support for python3 (and migrate to python-single-r1.eclass)
Summary: >=sys-devel/gdb-7.6: add support for python3 (and migrate to python-single-r1...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers
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Reported: 2014-03-08 12:01 UTC by Nikoli
Modified: 2014-03-09 00:05 UTC (History)
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Description Nikoli 2014-03-08 12:01:40 UTC 
stages now install python3.3 by default, gdb >=7.6 supports python3, please use it by default.

/usr/share/doc/gdb-7.6.2/gdb/NEWS.bz2:
"
*** Changes in GDB 7.6
...
* Python scripting
...
  ** Python 3 is now supported (in addition to Python 2.4 or later)
...
"

Also please start using python-single-r1.eclass.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-03-09 00:04:42 UTC 
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Convert python support to use python-single-r1 and allow python 2.7 and 3.3 versions
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-7.7.ebuild?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-9999.ebuild?r1=1.23&r2=1.24
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-03-09 00:05:32 UTC 
gdb 7.6 is at EAPI=3 and i don't really feel backporting the migration work.  so it's only in gdb 7.7+.