[oi-dev] Upgrade of gdb to 8.0 and python 3.7

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:44 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> This message is just to inform the OI developers that I'm working on
> gdb now.  It will be a version upgrade from 7.10.1 to 8.0 and a python
> upgrade from 2.7 to 3.7 .  Gdb version 8.0 is the Oracle Solaris
> freeware version, used in the current Solaris.  I know that the
> current gdb version is 10.2, but 8.0 comes with a set of patches that
> are known to work with Solaris, and will likely work with OI.
>
> Note that the gdb presently included with OI has 63 patches.  I'm not
> about to review all of those.  Version 8.0 has only eight patches.
> All of them seem to work.
>
> All I have to do before creating a PR is to do a bit of testing with
> the new gdb.  The important thing is to remove the current dependancy
> on python-2, so we can get rid of that version of python.  I also
> intend to try some more recent versions of gdb to see if they also
> work with the Solaris patches.
>

This is a very good strategy, thank you for your work on this :)



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