Re: [PATCH 1/1] Revert "gdb-cross-canadian: build gdb with python support"

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 03/22/2012 02:31 PM, Eric Bénard wrote:
> Hi Khem, Hi Nitin,
>
> Le Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:16:44 -0700,
> Khem Raj<raj.khem@gmail.com>  a écrit :
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Kamble, Nitin A
>> <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>  wrote:
>>> Looks like we need this patch for the python recipe to generate debug modules:
>>> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/python2.7/2.7.2-8/debug-build.diff
>>
>> yep thats the one. Apply it to python and rebuild python-native and
>> stage it then see if that helps. You might have to adjust the FILES
>> and PACKAGES to put the new files in right places.
>
> With this patch all the libraries (including libpython2.7) now have a _d
> suffix : is that what we really want ?
>
> Once that's hacked in the recipe so that do_compile works - in case
> someone has an idea - I get a failure during installation of
> python-nativesdk :
> build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-nativesdk-oesdk-linux/python-nativesdk-2.7.2-r1.9/image/usr/local/oecore-x86_64/sysroots/x86_64-oesdk-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py :
> return os.path.join(get_path('platstdlib'), "config" + (sys.pydebug and
> "_d" or ""), "Makefile") | AttributeError: 'module' object has no
> attribute 'pydebug
>
> I checked on both debian&  fedora and they are using this patch only to
> generate debug packages, not for the standard package.
> Moreover, when I execute gdb on my PC (Fedora 16) it runs fine and I
> don't have readline_d.so installed in lib-dynload so it seems possible
> to get gdb to work with python without having debug symbols.
>
> Eric

when I launch gdb I end up with

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 562, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 544, in main
     known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 271, in addusersitepackages
     user_site = getusersitepackages()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 246, in getusersitepackages
     user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 236, in getuserbase
     USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 543, in get_config_var
     return get_config_vars().get(name)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 442, in get_config_vars
     _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 303, in _init_posix
     makefile = _get_makefile_filename()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 297, in 
_get_makefile_filename
     return 
os.path.join(get_path('platstdlib').replace("/usr/local","/usr",1), 
"config" + (sys.pydebug and "_d" or ""), "Makefile")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pydebug'