8.2 version of gdb from oe-core builds just fine.
linaro-7.8 version of gdb is around for historical reasons, I guess. Similar
to linaro-2.20 version of glibc and linaro-2.25 version of binutils...
--
Denys
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:45:40PM +0100, Diego Buffa wrote:
> Hi all,
> I tried the new external-arm feature.
> I had a problem in building gdb-7.8, attached the patch I used to
> solve the problem,an in the following the patch for the layer, but
> anyway why gdb-7.8 is still used in the master branch? why do not
> upgrade to a newer version?
>
> Regards,
> d.
>
> diff --git a/meta-linaro-toolchain/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb_linaro-7.8.bb
> b/meta-linaro-toolchain/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb_linaro-7.8.bb
> index 630d43c..841b1ed 100644
> --- a/meta-linaro-toolchain/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb_linaro-7.8.bb
> +++ b/meta-linaro-toolchain/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb_linaro-7.8.bb
> @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ inherit python-dir
> PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
> PACKAGECONFIG[python] =
> "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python"
>
> +SRC_URI += "file://0001-Fix-compilation-external-gcc-arm-8.2-2018.11.patch"
> +
> do_configure_prepend() {
> if [ -n "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python',
> 'python', '', d)}" ]; then
> cat > ${WORKDIR}/python << EOF
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