Unable To Install GDB With Python Support

The thing is, I want to have python support in my GDB installation. When I ran ./configure --with-python with make in the GDB source file directory, however, the 'make' exited

Solution 1:

I had this same problem. I am using Python 2.7.10 - Anaconda 2.3.0 (installed in a non-standard location), and GDB-7.11. It turns out that within gdb-7.11/ there are multiple autoconfigs. When I inspected gdb-7.11/gdb/config.cache, there was an error because it could not find python2.7 library. So the solution is to export LDFLAGS, when running the top level autoconfig in gdb-7.11 otherwise the autoconfig in gdb-7.11/gdb will not know where to find the python2.7 library.

E.G.

 make distclean
 cd gdb/
 make distclean
 cd ../
 export LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/nonstandard/python/lib/; ./configure --prefix=/path/to/home/directory/gdb-7.11/ --with-python

NOTE : In this situation, it is best to clean both the top level and the gdb configures. Cleaning the top level configure will not clean the gdb/ configure. This gave me some grief.

Solution 2:

Install python libraries with,

sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev

Now try,

./configure --with-python
make

Solution 3:

I assume your python2.7 binary is installed under /usr/bin

then you can try ./configure --with-python=python2.7 then make and gdb makefile will search for the python binary to get python header and lib to complete the compilation

Solution 4:

This error usually happens when python is not installed in a standard location.

If you are building python from source, then configure and build it as:

./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/local LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath=$HOME/local/lib"
make install

After python has been built (change $HOME/local to where you prefer), it is time to configure and build gdb (tested with GDB 7.10):

export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,$HOME/local/lib -L$HOME/local/lib"
./configure --with-python=$HOME/local/bin/ --prefix=$HOME/local
make install