MINGW-packages: [gdb] Lastest version (8.3-1) is still showing as 8.2.1-1 and crash on startup
I was having problem starting gdb in all msys2 shells, so I deleted msys2 from my system and did a fresh install.
After that, I was having the following problems.
MSYS2 shell
$ gdb
osabi.c:661: internal-error: _initialize_gdb_osabi: gdb_osabi_names[] is inconsistent
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) Segmentation fault (core dumped)
MINGW32 shell :
$ gdb
C:/msys64/mingw32/bin/gdb.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
MINGW64 shell :
$ gdb
C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gdb.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libsource-highlight-4.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Calling pacman -Q --info gdb
reports the following in a MINGW64 shell :
Name : gdb
Version : 8.2.1-1
Description : GNU Debugger (MSYS2 version)
Architecture : x86_64
This URL reports that the latest version should be 8.3-1.
If I open gdb.exe with an hexadecimal editor, I can see a lot of reference to “gdb-8.3” (mostly in assertion strings).
To be sure, one of my colleague, which didn’t update for a few days and is still able to debug, did this :
$ sha256sum `which gdb`
099588743af8a4847c2d4c51b85bb67a139194db74eec654aa94e9720b4e1a84 */mingw64/bin/gdb
On my computer, it yield this result :
$ sha256sum `which gdb`
91c8f9f131a3a2c5cea7ecb9f442bb2d97367bb7213d629ca5abdce1f2169d68 */mingw64/bin/gdb
This SHA matches the SHA of gdb 8.3-1.
I cannot reinstall 8.2.1-1, as the meta-data for the package are wrong, but gdb 8.3-1 doesn’t start.
What should I do?
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- State: closed
- Created 5 years ago
- Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)
@oscarfv : thank you for that. Unfortunately, while it fixes the interactive problem, it appears to mess up breakpoints. When I use
winpty gdb ...
, set a breakpoint, and the breakpoint is hit, gdb exits. When I usegdb ...
and set the same breakpoint, gdb works normally.Is there a replacement MSYS2 gdb? That would work, too.