gdb: The GNU Project debugger

Description

GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on “inside” another program while it executes – or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.

License

GPL v3+

Upstream Contact

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/

Special Update/Build Instructions

Current version needs makeinfo installed to build successfully.

Type

experimental

Dependencies

• $(PYTHON)

• mpfr: Multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding

• ncurses: Classic terminal output library

• xz: General-purpose data compression software

• zlib: Data compression library

Version Information

package-version.txt:

8.2

Equivalent System Packages

Alpine

$ apk add gdb

conda-forge

No package needed.

Homebrew

$ brew install gdb

MacPorts

$ sudo port install gdb

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install gdb

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install gdb

See https://repology.org/project/gdb/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see Issue #27330 for more information.