Bug 386141

Summary:	sys-devel/gdb should have IUSE=+python
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben Longbons <b.r.longbons>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	jlec
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ben Longbons 2011-10-07 19:54:20 UTC

Since perl and python USE flags were removed from the default profile (bug 250179),
gdb will now be built without support for pretty printers,
which makes debugging ANYTHING in C++ a real pain.

(there is a different between the two uses of the USE flag: bindings, which are useful to a few people, and support, which is useful to many)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-10-07 20:04:08 UTC

(assigning correctly)

(In reply to comment #0)
> (there is a different between the two uses of the USE flag: bindings, which are
> useful to a few people, and support, which is useful to many)

@toolchain: A nice use flag description here will be a very helpful addition for end users. Thanks.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-12-02 21:08:26 UTC

considering python is the new and recommended scripting language for gdb (and the old one is pretty much EOL), i'm fine with +python

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Enable python support by default
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-7.3.1.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-9999.ebuild?r1=1.5&r2=1.6
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/metadata.xml?r1=1.7&r2=1.8