enable Python support in GDB

[bootlin]

enable Python support in GDB

[slightlyunconventional]

This change works for me:

--- aarch64--glibc--bleeding-edge-2017.11-1.defconfig.orig      2018-02-20 17:28:52.567018000 -0800
+++ aarch64--glibc--bleeding-edge-2017.11-1.defconfig   2018-02-20 17:28:56.780343000 -0800
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 BR2_GCC_VERSION_7_X=y
 BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB_PYTHON=y
 BR2_GDB_VERSION_8_0=y
 BR2_INIT_NONE=y
 # BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX is not set

The same config option can be enabled for the "stable" (2017.05) toolchain, but I can understand if you only want to enable new features in a future release.

[slightlyunconventional]

Patch for toolchains-builder.git:

config: enable host-gdb's Python interpreter

There are some pretty important tools distributed as GDB Python scripts, such
as Linux's gdb scripts (including dmesg dumper).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[email protected]>

diff --git a/configs/optionals/*.config b/configs/optionals/*.config
--- a/configs/optionals/*.config
+++ b/configs/optionals/*.config
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB_PYTHON=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_GDB=y

@tpetazzoni, would you apply it?

[zkrx]

Any chance to see this patch applied? Unfortunately, I cannot use any bootlin toolchain because I need python support in GDB.

[tpetazzoni]

Fixed by e304245