On OSX the built GDB crashes

[sylane]

When building the toolchain on OSX, the gdb binary crashes.

[c-mauderer]

Possible reason: https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/users/2021-April/068372.html

[eproxus]

@c-mauderer Any idea on how we can "persuade" the installer to use 10.1 or 10.2 for our toolchain?

[c-mauderer]

Without testing it: I would expect that it is possible to backport the files from the current master of rtems source builder. A completely untested first try would be that one:

0001-FIXME-Switch-to-gdb-10.patch.txt

[eproxus]

@c-mauderer Thanks! Just tried exactly those steps myself after trawling the rtems-source-builder repo for a while. 🙂

If we want to "upgrade" to GDB 10, what would be the correct way to modify our fork of rtems-source-builder. Create a branch of the current commit we're using and add your suggested changes?

[c-mauderer]

If we want to "upgrade" to GDB 10, what would be the correct way to modify our fork of rtems-source-builder. Create a branch of the current commit we're using and add your suggested changes?

Basically yes. We have a branch for RSB already because I added a patch that prefers python3. Currently it's called "cm/20210819_fix_python_dependency". You want to do a release now. So maybe some more official sounding name like "grisp2" would be better.

[eproxus]

Okay, I'll base a new grisp2 branch on that branch, and add the upgrade to GDB 10 there. Currently we need to fix #35 before it makes sense to upgrade though. I assume GDB 10 has the same problem on Linux as well on macOS.